For this structure, using -egen, rowmax()-
and comparing the result with 5 is a alternative.
Nick
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Maarten buis
> --- Ziad El-Khatib <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I dataset, looking at patients at different time points (week1,
> > week2, week3 .... week12) and measuring their adherence.
> > I want to count patients who did report poor adherence for at least
> > one time, i.e. did report adherence above 5 for at least once
> > during the 12 weeks of observation.
>
> *---------- begin example ------------
> /* generate some data */
> drop _all
> set obs 100
> forvalues i = 1/12 {
> gen week`i' = ceil(6*uniform())
> }
>
> /*at least once poor adherence*/
> gen poor = 0
> forvalues i = 1/12 {
> replace poor = 1 if week`i' > 5
> }
>
> /*count number of poor adherence patients*/
> count if poor == 1
> *--------------- end example -------------
> (For more on how to use examples I sent to the Statalist, see
> http://home.fsw.vu.nl/m.buis/stata/exampleFAQ.html )
>
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