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Day 1: Introduction to multi-level data problems

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Zen and the art of reshapeing<br />

◮ some things cannot be done in long format. For instance if we<br />

want <strong>to</strong> plot one set of scores against another, e.g. taxes v.<br />

spending versus social dimension from the expert surveys<br />

◮ For this we need the wide format, where each dimension forms<br />

a separate variable and the identifier defines a unique row

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