Hi Neil,
The task assigned to me is to put the data in wide format. I do not
why it is required. Thank you for your email.
Ashim.
On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 5:25 PM, Neil Shephard <[email protected]> wrote:
> Ashim Kapoor wrote:
>> Dear Phil,
>>
>> Thank you for your reply. I do intend to make those many variables. I
>> guess it's not possible.
>>
>
> It _is_ possible, if as Phil indicated, you have (or upgrade to)
> Stata/SE or Stata/MP which both have a maximum limit of 32767 variables
> in a dataset.
>
> Without knowing what your trying to achieve its difficult to offer any
> more advice, but most commands that work on repeated measures and so
> forth work with the data in long format so there may be no need to
> -reshape- the data. Although presumably there is a reason why you wish
> the data in wide-format.
>
> Neil
>
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