It seems likely that by
"observation" Elisabeth meant "value of string variable"
and by
"variable" Elisabeth meant "variable name".
Either way, note what difficulties experienced Stata users have when people don't use standard Stata terminology....
Nick
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E. Paul Wileyto
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It's a user-written command that is very useful for changing prefixes
and suffixes.
Elisabeth Müller wrote:
> does anybody know how to change the prefix of an observation (not variable)? E.g. if I want to change the observation "alpha" into "1lpha"?
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