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Re: st: Reshape from wide to long


From   Nick Cox <[email protected]>
To   "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject   Re: st: Reshape from wide to long
Date   Mon, 18 Nov 2013 21:21:17 +0000

The key is that -reshape- wants stubs, not variable names.  See

FAQ     . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  Problems with reshape
        . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  N. J. Cox
        8/05    I am having problems with the reshape command. Can
                you give further guidance?
                http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/data-management/
                problems-with-reshape/

which is support for the manual entry.
Nick
[email protected]


On 18 November 2013 20:35, Lars Folkestad <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello
>
> I want to a data set of repeated measurments. I want to reshape the data from wide to long seeing i want to show individual data change over time in a graph I have 2 measurments.
>
> Each case have a patient number and a id - both unik identifiers.
>
> The first five variables are there only once: id var0a var0b var0c var0d
>
> When i write:
> .reshape long varA1 varB1 varC1 varA2 varB2 varC2, i(PatNo) j(visit)
>
> Stata gives out an error saying no variables a# b# was found.
>
> What am i doing wrong?
>
> Mvh Lars Folkestad
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