--- Davide Cantoni <[email protected]> wrote:
> The only drawback is that I would have to change the format of my
> dataset to a panel with each -dtosynth_*- variable appended
> vertically instead of having all the -dtosynth_*- variables merged
> horizontally one next to the other.
Moving between wide and long format is very common with this type of
data, and Stata has a tool that facilitates this, see: -help reshape-.
Hope this helps,
Maarten
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