Re: st: duplicating observations

[Richard Williams <Richard.A.Williams.5@ND.edu>]

At 09:51 AM 4/26/2006, louis boakye-yiadom wrote:
> Thanks, Clint and Richard. The -expand- command is useful, but it 
> appears it doesn't permit the generation of different numbers of 
> copies for different observations. I'm using version 8.2. Thanks.
>
> Louis
Sure it does.  Suppose the frequency count is in variable freq.  Then type

expand freq


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