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RE: st: RE: creating an index variable: number of presentations to hospital by participant


From   Nick Cox <[email protected]>
To   "'[email protected]'" <[email protected]>
Subject   RE: st: RE: creating an index variable: number of presentations to hospital by participant
Date   Thu, 28 Oct 2010 12:08:58 +0100

Mitch Abdon had exactly the right idea. I just fleshed it out. 

Nick 
[email protected] 


-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Alison McCarthy
Sent: 28 October 2010 11:49
To: stata
Subject: RE: st: RE: creating an index variable: number of presentations to hospital by participant

Dear Nick,

This is exactly what I was looking for thanks! I had the bysort patient_id year arrivaldate, but was missing the brackets.
Thanks for sending the reading material too.
Really appreciate your advice
Alison 

> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 10:54:06 +0100
> Subject: RE: st: RE: creating an index variable: number of presentations to hospital by participant
> 
> That is, 
> 
> bysort patient_id year (arrivaldate): gen order_in_year = _n 
> 
> A tutorial on -by:- is included within 
> 
> SJ-2-1  pr0004  . . . . . . . . . . Speaking Stata:  How to move step by: step
>         . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  N. J. Cox
>         Q1/02   SJ 2(1):86--102                                  (no commands)
>         explains the use of the by varlist : construct to tackle
>         a variety of problems with group structure, ranging from
>         simple calculations for each of several groups to more
>         advanced manipulations that use the built-in _n and _N
> 
> which is accessible to all via the Stata Journal website. I got the above text (and other hits) within Stata by 
> 
> . search by, sj 
> 
> -- and if you do that yourself you will get a clickable link to the corresponding .pdf. 
> 
> Nick 
> [email protected] 
> 
> Mitch Abdon
> 
> You may add the year variable in the -by- prefix. You need to include
> the year variable in the -sort- as well. See "help by".
> 
> Alison McCarthy
> 
> > regarding the formula below. Is there a way to also split this up by year of presentation?
> > This means you have the number of ordered presentations for each participant calculated separately for each year.
> 

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