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Re: st: Extend observations in dataset
From
miriam geringer <[email protected]>
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Subject
Re: st: Extend observations in dataset
Date
Tue, 28 Jan 2014 17:59:51 +0100
Sorry, we are different people, working on the same project with a
single desktop. Got some confusion here.
2014-01-28 Nick Cox <[email protected]>:
> Unless I am misunderstanding something, you appear to be posting as
>
> Miriam Geiringer
> Peter Bilfiger
> Torsten Häberle
>
> Precisely one identity is enough. Masquerading as somebody else is a
> breach of trust.
>
>
>
>
> Nick
> [email protected]
>
>
> On 28 January 2014 15:22, Torsten Häberle <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I forgot to mention:
>> 11111 is the very last observation at the end of the dataset. The
>> extension should only be done to this very last observation.
>>
>> Example:
>>
>> Number Year Other variable of interest
>> 77777 1975 9
>> 22222 1972 8
>> 11111 1999 5
>>
>>
>> Extension to:
>>
>> Number Year Other variable of interest
>> 77777 1975 9
>> 22222 1972 8
>> 11111 1999 5
>> 11111 2000 .
>> 11111 2001 .
>> 11111 2002 .
>> 11111 1998 .
>> 11111 1997 .
>> 11111 1996 .
>>
>> All the observations before should not be extended. They stay exactly
>> the same. Only the very last one (11111 in our case).
>>
>> 2014-01-28 Peter Bilfiger <[email protected]>:
>>> I have the following dataset:
>>>
>>> Number Year Other variable of interest
>>> 11111 1999 5
>>>
>>>
>>> Now, I want to extend the observations so that it looks like this:
>>>
>>> Number Year Other variable of interest
>>> 11111 1999 5
>>> 11111 2000 .
>>> 11111 2001 .
>>> 11111 2002 .
>>> 11111 1998 .
>>> 11111 1997 .
>>> 11111 1996 .
>>>
>>>
>>> Basically extend the years by +3 and -3 and just copy the number so that for each year, there is the same number from the initial year. The other variables are not important. They can be missing.
>>>
>>> Can anybody help?
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