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Re: st: creating an array with hospitalization days


From   "Eric G. Wruck" <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: creating an array with hospitalization days
Date   Tue, 8 Nov 2005 15:20:42 -0500

What was the syntax error?  You may have gone past the 365th element of your array if you have a discharge day sometime past 1-October-2001, or thereabouts.

Eric



>Hi! I'm still on v8.
>
>I'm looking at one year of data for which one record corresponds to one
>hospitalization. I created variables day1-day365 to represent all the days
>in that year. Now, I would like those variables to be equal to one during an
>hospitalization. I have the admission day (admitday) and the discharge day
>(disday) and using these, I created two variables begin and end that tell me
>when did that hospitalization started and ended. Then I though that I could
>loop from begin to end and change the day array from 0 to 1. However I'm
>getting a syntax error and I think it comes from the begin and end variables
>in the forvalues loop. Can anyone help me?
>
>sample code:
>
>forvalues i=1(1)365 {
> 	gen day`i'=0
>}
>
>gen begin=admitday-mdy(10,1,2000)+1
>replace begin=1 if begin<=0
>
>gen end=disday-mdy(10,1,2000)+1
>
>forvalues i=begin(1)end {
>	replace day`i'=1
>}
>
>sample data:
>
>      +--------------------------------------------------------------+
>       | study_id    admitday      disday   begin   end   day1   day2 |
>       |--------------------------------------------------------------|
>    1. |       19   03jan2001   24jan2001      95   116      0      0 |
>    2. |      362   24may2001   29may2001     236   241      0      0 |
>    3. |      396   01jun2001   07jun2001     244   250      0      0 |
>    4. |      436   21mar2001   22mar2001     172   173      0      0 |
>    5. |      438   17jan2001   25jan2001     109   117      0      0 |
>       |--------------------------------------------------------------|
>    6. |      517   06mar2001   21mar2001     157   172      0      0 |
>    7. |      517   11sep2001   17sep2001     346   352      0      0 |
>    8. |      590   16sep2001   17sep2001     351   352      0      0 |
>    9. |      879   20dec2000   22dec2000      81    83      0      0 |
>       +--------------------------------------------------------------+



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