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Re: st: Need help sorting values
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Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Need help sorting values
Date
Sun, 17 Feb 2013 16:17:31 +0000
gen what = cond(report == "h&p", 0, cond(report == "end", 2, 1))
bysort patient (date what) :
If your variable -report- is numeric with value labels, there will be
a similar but not identical solution.
Nick
On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 3:32 PM, Michael Stewart
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I have data for different as follows
>
> pateint date report
> 111 2/15/2012 ed
> 111 2/15/2012 ed
> 111 2/15/2012 h&p
> 111 2/15/2012 d/c
> 111 2/15/2012 ed
> 111 2/15/2012 con
> 111 1/23/2012 con
> 111 1/23/2012 d/c
> 111 1/23/2012 ed
> 111 1/23/2012 con
> 111 1/23/2012 h&p
> 222 1/20/2012 ed
> 222 1/20/2012 h&p
> 222 1/20/2012 con
>
> My need is to sort the report variable for a particular date within a
> patient so that the h&p is the first value and ed is the last value
> i.e h&p is report[1] and ed is report[_N]
>
>
> something like bysort patient date: _ _ _ _ _
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