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Re: st: reshaping problem: unique values in other variables


From   Michael McCulloch <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: reshaping problem: unique values in other variables
Date   Sat, 18 Mar 2006 17:27:52 -0800

Thank you Philip!

At 04:51 PM 3/18/2006, you wrote:
Use 2 calls to -reshape- ensuring that at each call, the value of the variables is unique within the identifier, or, here, set of identifiers, specified in the i() option :


. li, clean

id dset rec med afev wheeze cough
1. 2 b 1 0 -9 0 0
2. 2 b 2 1 -9 0 0
3. 2 a 1 1 1.7 0 0
4. 2 a 2 0 1.8 0 0
5. 6 b 1 1 -9 0 1
6. 6 b 2 1 -9 0 0
7. 6 a 1 0 2.08 0 1
8. 6 a 2 0 1.85 0 0

. reshape wide med afev wheeze cough, i(id rec) j(dset) string

* note variable dset is a string, hence the string option is specified
* note sneaky use of two identifiers whose conjunction _for the subobservation now defined by drec_ yields unique values for med, afev etc


. list, clean

id rec meda afeva wheezea cougha medb afevb wheezeb coughb
1. 2 1 1 1.7 0 0 0 -9 0 0
2. 2 2 0 1.8 0 0 1 -9 0 0
3. 6 1 0 2.08 0 1 1 -9 0 1
4. 6 2 0 1.85 0 0 1 -9 0 0

. reshape wide med* afev* wheeze* cough*, i(id ) j(rec)


. list id med* af* wh*, clean

id meda1 medb1 meda2 medb2 afeva1 afevb1 afeva2 afevb2 wheezea1 wheezeb1 wheezea2 wheezeb2
1. 2 1 0 0 1 1.7 -9 1.8 -9 0 0 0 0
2. 6 0 1 0 1 2.08 -9 1.85 -9 0 0 0 0


(where for clarity I have left out listing some of the variables because of ugly line-wrapping, at least on my screen)

Phil


.
At 09:25 PM 16/03/2006 -0800, you wrote:

I have data with the following structure:

list id rec med afev wheeze cough date agev
+---------------------------------------------------+
| id dset rec med afev wheeze cough |
|---------------------------------------------------|
| 2 b 1 0 -9 0 0 |
| 2 b 2 1 -9 0 0 |
| 2 a 1 1 1.70 0 0 |
| 2 a 2 0 1.80 0 0 |
| 6 b 1 1 -9 0 1 |
| 6 b 2 1 -9 0 0 |
| 6 a 1 0 2.08 0 1 |
| 6 a 2 0 1.85 0 0 |
+---------------------------------------------------+

I wish to reorganize the data so that there is one row for each ID, with subsets for dset (a or b) and rec (1 or 2) for each of the variables: med, afev, wheeze, cough.

My goal is to have:
id med(a1) med(b1) med(a2) med(b2) afev(a1) afev(b1) afev(a2) afev(b2)
2 1 0 0 1 1.70 -9 1.80 -9
6 0 1 0 1 2.08 -9 1.85 -9

I have tried using the reshape command but each subset does not have unique values of the variables afev, wheeze, and cough.
I have tried using the collapse command, but I do not want to create summary statistics.
I have tried using the contract command, but I do not want to create frequency counts.
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.





Best wishes,
Michael


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Best wishes,
Michael


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