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Re: st: AW: -longshape- available from SSC
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Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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Re: st: AW: -longshape- available from SSC
Date
Sat, 8 Oct 2011 16:29:28 +0100
Thanks for this.
With your regard to your -reshape wide-, the issue I think is not
whether -wideshape- might be useful to you, but whether -reshape wide-
works well for you without side-effects.
Nick
On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 4:00 PM, Kaulisch, Marc
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Nick,
>
> Thanks for this program, I also encountered the same problems more than once...
> One additional comment: I can think of a use-case where -wideshape- might be a good complementary program (although I am not completely sure).
>
> Example:
> Wide-data reshaped into long-data
> Creating new variables with long-data - for example: clusters after an optimal-matching-analysis (s. -sq- (from ssc)).
> Long-data into wide-data in order to use the clusters for further analysis
>
> Of course, I could do a merge of wide and long to add the new vars to the "old" wide data; but intuitively I would do a reshape...
Nick Cox
>
> Thanks to Kit Baum, a program -longshape- may now be downloaded from SSC. Stata 9.2 is required.
>
> -longshape- is a wrapper for -reshape long- to fix a side-effect of -reshape long- that bites very occasionally. I've been a happy user of
> -reshape- for many years until the problem bit me with a particular kind of data very recently.
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