Reply To: Understanding structure for time series

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Bill Finzer
Keymaster

Hello again,

I neglected to address the rationale. Thinking about the situation, there are two kinds of “cases”: states, and rates. Each state has a rate for each year, and each rate for a given year belongs to a certain state. This implies a hierarchy. Row by column structures are far from ideal for modeling hierarchies. CODAP allows you to create any number of levels, and this works very well for a surprising number of situations.

Bill