st: re: date and if fn

Ziad said

the last command
> reshape wide date , i(patid) j(weeks)
did not work because weeks contains missing values, any tips?

mvencode/mvdecode missing values of the weeks* variables to zero before you do the first reshape.

Kit Baum, Boston College Economics and DIW Berlin
http://ideas.repec.org/e/pba1.html
An Introduction to Modern Econometrics Using Stata:
http://www.stata-press.com/books/imeus.html

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