I have observations on patient admissions over
a 12 month period.
For each observation, I have 12 variables, call
them var1-var12, which indicate whether a certain
condition was met for that patient for months 1-12.
So, eg, it may be true for months 1-3 and 7-12.
I also have a variable -month-, which indicates
the current month of the observed admission. What
I want to capture is whether the condition was true
in the month of admission.
For instance, at first I unthinkingly tried this:
gen mycond = var`=month'==1
but this of course uses the first observed value
of -month-, which happens to be 6, and only checks
-var6-.
I eventually got there by creating lots of vars, but is
there a more direct solution?
thanks,
Jeph
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