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st: RE: Question about data management - how to combine 2 rows of data
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Thu, 1 Mar 2012 11:18:04 -0500
Hello,
The general approach I would use (might not be the most efficient way) would be:
I assume "missing" is a "." so that once sorted it will be the last observation for day 1.
bysort id day pill_morning: replace pill_afternoon = pill_afternoon [_n+1] if day == 1
...
bysort id day pill_morning: drop if _n == 2
Jean-François Bertrand
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From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Maria Cecilia Vieira da Silva
Sent: March 1, 2012 11:00 AM
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Subject: st: Question about data management - how to combine 2 rows of data
Hello,
I have a problem with my panel data. Day 1 is duplicate for all the ids. The first "day 1" observation refers to the morning variables and the second 'day 1" observation refers to the afternoon variables. The rest of the days are fine - they are listed just once in the panel.
I would like to combine the rows for "day 1" and keep only 1 observation, so that I have information on the morning and afternoon variables combined in one row and would like to keep the variables that are invariable to "day".
Any suggestions?
I thought about using collapse, but it would change the names of the variables that are valid for the rest of the data set.
Thanks,
M.Cecilia
id day pill_morning pill_afternoon pain_morning pain_afternoon sex
1 1 1 missing 5 missing M
1 1 missing 3 missing 9 M
1 2 1 3 1 2 M
1 3 3 5 0 1 M
2 1 2 missing 8 missing F
2 1 missing 1 missing 3 F
2 2 0 1 0 3 F
2 3 1 0 2 0 F
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