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st: How to sum group of variables to a single variable in a large data set?


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Subject   st: How to sum group of variables to a single variable in a large data set?
Date   Mon, 5 Mar 2007 13:35:18 +0200

Hi 

 

I wanted to ask how do I sum group of variables into a single variable
in a large data set?

Suppose I have list of variables as follows:

diag3201
 
diag4201
 
diag8203
 
diag9201
 
diag9202
 
diag9203
 
diag9204
 
diag10214
 
diag10218
 
diag11201
 
diag98201
 
diag98202
 
diag98204
 
diag98205
 
diag98206
 
diag98207
 
diag100201
 
diag100202
 
diag100203
 
diag100204
 
diag100205
 
diag100206
 
diag100207
 
diag100208
 
diag100209
 
diag100210
 
diag100211
 
diag100212
 
diag100213
 
diag100214
 
diag100215
 
diag100216
 
diag100217
 
diag100218
 
diag100219
 
diag100220
 
diag100221
 

 

The last three digits for each variable are the same; starts with 201
and end with 222 for some of them. The first digits indicate a
diagnosis. For instance, for diagnosis 98 we have variables diag98201
till diag98207, for diagnosis 9 we have variables diag9201-diag9204. I
want to generate new variables for the diagnoses that equal to the sum
of the variables that relate to this diagnosis. For example I want to
generate diag98=diag98201+ diag98202+ …+ diag98207 or diag9=diag9201+
diag9202+..diag9207.

I know how to do it for one diagnosis at a time, I use egen diag98=
rsum(diag98201-diag98207), but I need to do it for a large number of
diagnoses so how can I do it for all of them? 

 

Thanks

 

David

p.s. I have stata8



David Messika
The Health Economics Unit
The Gertner Institute for Epidemiology and Health Policy Research
Chaim Sheba Medical Center
Ramat-Gan, Israel
(: 972-3-5303935 (: 972-3-5303277


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