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st: RE: Manipulating variables with repeated observations


From   "Nick Cox" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   st: RE: Manipulating variables with repeated observations
Date   Tue, 17 Oct 2006 19:16:07 +0100

You should find out about -by:-. 

For example: 

bysort MRN (VisitDate) : gen visit = _n 
by MRN : gen change = BMI[_N] - BMI[1] 

Nick 
[email protected] 

Karen R. Fl�rez
 
> I have a dataset with kids BMIs that looks like this:
> 
> MRN     VisitDate   BMI
> 
> 123     10/20/04    30
> 
> 123      6/11/05    25
> 
> 123      4/14/06    25
> 
> 222
> 
> 222
> 
> 222
> 
> 
> 
> Where MRN is the unique identifier. Kids had different visits at
> different times and BMI were take at each time. How can I generate
> a variable that codes for Visit 1,2,3,etc? So that I can measure
> the change between baseline and last follow-up?

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