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Re: st: Reshape problem


From   "Radu Ban" <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: Reshape problem
Date   Thu, 4 May 2006 14:58:36 -0400

i don't know if this is the best way, but you could use the -xpose- command.

but before that you need to make all you variables numerical. for example:

/*coding males as 1 females as 0, Y as 1 no(missing) as 0 */
/*coding age as numeric age*/

forval i = 2/256 {
gen real_v`i' = 1 if v`i' == "M" | v`i' == "Y"
replace real_v`i' = 0 if v`i' == "F" | v`i' == ""
replace real_v`i' = real(v`i') in 2
}

/*now you no longer really need id and v1, as long as you make note of
what each row means*/

drop id v1

/*now you can transpose*/
xpose, clear

/*now you rename to get the variables name back*/
rename v1 sex
rename v2 age
...

/*now you label values*/
label define yesno 1 yes 2 no
label define gender 1 male 0 female
...

hope this helps. there are probably more elegant solutions though.

-radu

2006/5/4, Thomas Speidel <[email protected]>:
Dear Statalisters:

I have a dataset that I need to re-organize in a long format.
Here is a sample:

+--------------------------------------+
| id                 v1   v2   v3   v4 |
|--------------------------------------|
|  2                Sex    M    M    M |
|  3                Age   47   66   56 |
|  4           Left eye                |
|  5          Right eye    Y    Y    Y |
|  6       Lower eyelid    Y    Y    Y |
|--------------------------------------|
|  7       Upper eyelid                |
|  8    Lateral canthus                |
|  9     Medial canthus    Y    Y      |
| 10   Recurrent lesion                |
| 11     Primary lesion    Y    Y    Y |
+--------------------------------------+

There are 255 observations (v2-v256) occupying the columns.  I need each
observation to be a distinct row.  Almost all of the entries are string,
(missing means "NO"). I am having difficulties using the reshape command
to achieve my goal, possibly because of the strings.  Any suggestion on
how to approach this?  Should I create a loop to encode all variables?

Thanks for any suggestion,

Thomas

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