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Title

melt -- module to melt variables into a dataset containing aggregated data by variable

Syntax

melt [varlist] [weight] [, numlabels by(varlist) moreoff]

Description

Comparable with summarize melt generates aggregated data of all variables in the variable list. However, instead of displaying an output of all data the aggregated information become transfered into a new dataset.

Options

by groups over which stats are to be calculated.

moreoff by default the macro breaks to display a warning message; moreoff turns this behaviour off.

Author

Johannes N. Blumenberg

University of Mainz (Germany)

Department of Political Science

Empirical Political Research

blumenberg@politik.uni-mainz.de