Michael,
You understood. Thanks.
Mike Frone
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Re: st: using reshape
Maybe I don't understand the problem, but if ir2 is the number of injuries
reported and injnum is number for each injury created by reshape, why
can't
you just:
drop if injnum>ir2
immediately after the reshape?
Michael Blasnik
[email protected]
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Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2006 12:52 PM
Subject: Re: st: using reshape
> Svend,
>
> Thanks again for your suggestions.
>
> You're right that I could create a set of -drop- statements to remove
all
> null records (where all reshaped variables are missing) so that
-reshape-
> would create the unbalanced data set I need. Despite my general
aversion
> to using SPSS, I took a look at their version of -reshape-, called
> -restructure-. There is a handy option to drop all null records, which
> easily creates unbalanced data sets. It would be nice if Stata's
> -reshape- command had such an option. Given the likelihood of adding
new
> variables as the data analysis progresses, I will likely use SPSS to
> reshape my data.
>
> Mike Frone
>
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> Research Institute on Addictions
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