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Re: st: Need help with transforming dataset, please
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William Buchanan <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Need help with transforming dataset, please
Date
Mon, 25 Feb 2013 16:30:41 -0800
-help rename- is all that you need.
HTH,
Billy
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On Feb 25, 2013, at 16:18, Bidemi Carrol <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Stata People
>
> I just joined this community, and I am hoping someone can help with my issue.
>
> I would appreciate some help with transforming the dataset below.
> Reshape does not seem to work, but I may be applying it wrong.
>
> The original dataset is as follows (with many more grade and subject
> combinations):
>
> StudId Gender Subject1 Grade1 Subject2 Grade2 Subject3 Grade3
> Subject4 Grade4
> 121 F MATH 3 ENGLISH 4 GEOG 5
> FRENCH 5
> 122 F ENGLISH 4 GEOG 5 MATH 5
> 123 M FRENCH 2 ENGLISH 3 MATH 1
> GEOG 3
> 124 M GEOG 1 MATH 2 ENGLISH 2
>
> I would like it to look like this:
>
> StudID Gender Math English French Geog
> 121 F 3 4 5 5
> 122 F 5 4 5
> 123 M 1 3 2 3
> 124 M 2 2 1
>
> Thanks for any help you can provide.
>
> Cheers
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