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Re: st: update from long dataset using criteria


From   Joerg Luedicke <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: update from long dataset using criteria
Date   Thu, 20 Oct 2011 08:54:44 -0400

Maybe there are neater solutions, but here is one possibility:

1) merge keydate from data1 into data2
2) calculate the difference between test_date and keydate
3) select the record with the smallest difference (within id, and drop the rest)
4) then merge these data with data1 again

HTH,

J.

On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 8:33 AM, Colin Campbell
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Dear statalist,
>
> I have a master dataset (1) which is a flat file with one record for each unique id. this contains missing data to be updated
> from a second dataset (2) which is in long format with several observations per id.
> I wish to update 1 with the result from 2 where the date difference between keydate(1) and test_date(2) is minimised.
> i.e. for each unique id, update dataset 1 with result and test_date from dataset 2 when criteria X is satisfied
>
> I have managed in dataset 2  to placer test_date in ascending order within each id, reshape wide and keep  only the first result
> and then merge, update  into the master to import the first result but cannot work out how to apply criteria to this.
>
> Any help appreciated
>
> Colin
>
> dataset 1
>
> IdPacient  result    test_date            keydate
> 1                .                .                20/12/2010
> 2                .                .                01/01/1999
>
> dataset 2
> IdPacient    result    test_date            _n
> 1                1012      14/07/2010        2
> 1                1008      10/12/2010        3
> 1                 779       21/08/2009        1
> 2                 231       15/09/1999        3
> 2                195        01/06/1999        2
> 2                197        15/02/1999        1
>
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