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st: RE: 'Transposing data' follow up question


From   "Nick Cox" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   st: RE: 'Transposing data' follow up question
Date   Wed, 1 Dec 2004 19:13:14 -0000

Given this, it is not clear that you need -reshape wide- 
at all. Using -egen- with -by()- gives much more scope
for summarizing variability within regions. 

Nick 
[email protected] 

Shyam Kumar
 
> Thanks for the replies.Actually I had stylized my
> problem in my post. My data set is as follows:
> 
> X USA       25
> X Canada    45
> Y USA       122
> Y France    144
> Y Germany   133
> 
> Basically the regions are not the same for each firm,
> and there are a vast number of regions. In addition
> I'm not interested in sales falling in each region,
> but merely the dispersion in sales across various
> regions, whatever they might be. Hence Michael's
> suggestion of using by sort works. I can merely assign
> 1, 2 for X and 1,2,3 for Y. Thanks David for your
> suggestion. I look forward to Stata 11.
> 

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