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Stata is very reliable, so yes, it works the way it is supposed to. A good
source is of course http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?preserve and the manual
entry on -preserve-. You can also dump your data into a -tempfile-, of
course.
Stata 11 also has a -snapshot- feature
(http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?snapshot), although I have not explored this
myself yet :-)
HTH
Martin
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Michael McCulloch
Sent: Samstag, 28. November 2009 21:35
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: st: RE: reinstate data after -contract- and -reshape-
Thanks Martin, from the UCLA tutorial site
(http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/Stata/faq/stata2hlm_dofile.htm
), I gather that it's as simple as:
***
preserve
whatever you want to do here...
restore
***
Is that reliably the case?
Michael
On Nov 28, 2009, at 12:28 PM, Martin Weiss wrote:
>
> <>
> The "advanced syntax" of -reshape- let`s you undo the previous -
> reshape- in
> a straightforward manner, but -contract- can only be undone via -
> expand-.
> Have you had a look at -preserve- and -restore-, though?
>
>
> HTH
> Martin
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Michael
> McCulloch
> Sent: Samstag, 28. November 2009 21:21
> To: Statalist Statalist
> Subject: st: reinstate data after -contract- and -reshape-
>
> Dear Statalist members,
> With the help of Nick Cox and Martin Weiss, I've created the following
> data simulation for a graph to track research subject accrual.
> My question is how to reinstate the original dataset after the -
> contract- and -reshape- commands. I know it's possible to -reshape-,
> but not sure how to "reverse" the options. I don't think it's possible
> to "-uncontract'", so I'm thinking some version of -restore-??
>
> My understanding of those two commands is:
> -contract- makes a summary dataset of frequencies and percentages
> that will be reported in the graph, and
> -reshape- puts them in wide form so they can be -stacked-
>
> ****
> * Austin Nichols suggests:
> clear all
> set seed 1
> set obs 1000
> gen id=_n
> gen month=1 + int(12*uniform())
> gen year=2008 + int(2*uniform())
> gen subject_type=1 + int(3*uniform())
> la def lab_subjects 1 "no reply" 2 "screened" 3 "sampled", modify
> la val subject_type lab_subjects
> g m=(year-1960)*12+month-1
> format m %tmm_CY
> la var m "Calendar month"
> levelsof m, loc(vs)
> foreach v of loc vs {
> la def m `v' "`:di `:format m' `v''", modify
> }
> la val m m
> by m, sort: gen freq = _N // sort by the variable of interest
> and get
> the frequencies
> by m: gen cumfreq = _N if _n == 1 // get the cumulative frequencies
> replace cumfreq = sum(cumfreq)
> tabdisp m, cell(freq cumfreq)
> contract m subject_type, z f(one)
> reshape wide one, j(subject_type) i(m)
> g noreply=max(0,one1)
> g screened=max(0,one1)+max(0,one2)
> g sampled=max(0,one1)+max(0,one2)+max(0,one3)
> sc sampled screened noreply m, recast(bar) xla(576/599,angle(90))
> name(s)
> ****
>
>
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Michael McCulloch
> Pine Street Foundation
> 124 Pine Street
> San Anselmo, CA 94960-2674
> tel: 415-407-1357
> fax: 206-338-2391
>
>
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Best wishes,
Michael McCulloch
Pine Street Foundation
124 Pine Street
San Anselmo, CA 94960-2674
tel: 415-407-1357
fax: 206-338-2391
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