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| From | Lars Folkestad <lfolkestad@health.sdu.dk> |
| To | "statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu" <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu> |
| Subject | Re: st: Reshape from wide to long |
| Date | Wed, 20 Nov 2013 19:19:38 +0000 |
Dear Nick, and statalisters Ah i see. But now i have a problem i don't know how to solve. My variables in WIDE format are: Id patientId Name varA varB measurmentA1 measurmentB1 measurmentC1 measurmentA2 measurmentB2 measurmentC2 When i go: reshape long Name VarA VarB measurementA measurmentB measurmentC, i(Id) j(visit) I get a error message: r(110) patientID already defined What am i doing wrong? Lars Den 18/11/13 22.21 skrev "Nick Cox" <njcoxstata@gmail.com>: >The key is that -reshape- wants stubs, not variable names. See > >FAQ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Problems with >reshape > . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . N. >J. Cox > 8/05 I am having problems with the reshape command. Can > you give further guidance? > http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/data-management/ > problems-with-reshape/ > >which is support for the manual entry. >Nick >njcoxstata@gmail.com > > >On 18 November 2013 20:35, Lars Folkestad <lfolkestad@health.sdu.dk> >wrote: >> Hello >> >> I want to a data set of repeated measurments. I want to reshape the >>data from wide to long seeing i want to show individual data change over >>time in a graph I have 2 measurments. >> >> Each case have a patient number and a id - both unik identifiers. >> >> The first five variables are there only once: id var0a var0b var0c var0d >> >> When i write: >> .reshape long varA1 varB1 varC1 varA2 varB2 varC2, i(PatNo) j(visit) >> >> Stata gives out an error saying no variables a# b# was found. >> >> What am i doing wrong? >> >> Mvh Lars Folkestad >> * >> * For searches and help try: >> * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search >> * http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/resources/statalist-faq/ >> * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/ >* >* For searches and help try: >* http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search >* http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/resources/statalist-faq/ >* http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/ * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search * http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/resources/statalist-faq/ * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/