Apparently contract seems to give me what I want....
M
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 10:09 PM, Martin Weiss <[email protected]> wrote:
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> Have you had a look at the top of -help reshape-? No words can adequately
> explain what the drawing makes clear. The j variable must be unique in the
> initial dataset: How else would Stata create fill the new variables "stub"?
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> HTH
> Martin
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> Sent: Dienstag, 22. Dezember 2009 21:51
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> Subject: st: reshape question
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> Dear listers,
> My dataset originally contained 8000 observations on two different
> variables (location) sampled with 6-sec intervals in a long format. I
> then created averages for the two variables (avg_a & avg_b) for each
> minute(time2), using egen cut to split the time-variable and egen mean
> to create the avg variables. I now would like to subtract the two
> variables from each other for each time-window. I believe I have to
> create a wide dataset to do this, but I get an error stating
>
> .reshape wide avg_a avg_b,i(time2) j(location)
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> location not unique within time2;
> there are multiple observations at the same c7 within time2.
> Type "reshape error" for a listing of the problem observations.
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>
> Any idea how I can go about this?
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>
> M
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