st: reshape without index

[Caleb Southworth <caleb.southworth@gmail.com>]

I would like to set up these data for a an event history analysis and
use the -stset- command. Id is the organization id, begin is the begin
date, end is the end date. Here's a snippet:


    +-----------------------------+
    |    id      begin        end |
    |-----------------------------|
600. | 6119A   1947.716   1958.862 |
601. | 3158A   1948.269   1960.003 |
602. | 3216A   1948.504   1950.537 |
603. | 3192A   1948.558    1962.77 |
604. | 3119A   1949.483       1985 |
    |-----------------------------|
605. | 3189A   1950.333   1959.403 |
606. | 9841A   1952.088       1985 |
607. | 9973A   1953.908   1954.176 |
608. | 3181A   1957.574    1958.74 |
609. | 3011A   1958.772   1971.583 |
    |-----------------------------|
610. | 9951A   1958.789       1985 |

I want to end up with a dataset where year (decimal year) is the unit
of analysis and where a variable death=1 where year==end else death=0.
Do I need to reshape these data? Or is there a way to stset the data
for a stcox model in the current format?

Many thanks. --Caleb

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