st: Fixed value - time series

[Graeme Inglis <Graeme.Inglis@cancervic.org.au>]

I would appreciate some advice on how to do the following please.
I want to generate a new variable which takes the baseline value of another
variable and it has this baseline value in each time period - it is constant
over time.

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