--- Ziad El-Khatib <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have adherence level for 6 different drugs (drug1, drug2, etc..),
> inside cohort datafile, followed over 12 months.
> At every visit there are data for 3 out of 6 drugs and I want to have
> new variable having the minimal value for drug adherence
*---------------- begin example -----------------
clear
input id visit drug1 drug2 drug3 drug4 drug5 drug6
1 2 10 20 30 . . .
2 2 40 30 . 50 . .
end
egen minval = rowmin(drug*)
*----------------- end example -------------------
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Hope this helps,
Maarten
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