Thank you!
when i type
gen ndate = date(date, "DMY")
it sayd type mismatch, i am using ver 9.2, is it something in the text
or version related?
Thank you and best regards
ziad
On 10/27/07, Maarten buis <[email protected]> wrote:
> --- Ziad El-Khatib <[email protected]> wrote:
> > we observed patients at different time points and it is numbered
> > under 'visit' variable as 1,2,3,4,5
> >
> > And we know the date of each visit (variable named 'date')
> >
> > I am trying to calculate the number of days between visits for each
> > patient. Patients can be identified after their studyid.
> >
> > For example, my aim is to have something as below
> >
> > studyid visit date days
> > 1001 1 01-01-2000 0
> > 1001 2 15-01-2000 14
> > 1001 3 20-01-2000 5
> >
> > etc..
>
> turn the date variable into a Stata date variable and than you can
> within each studyid subtract the current date from the previous date,
> see -help date-, -help by- and the example below:
>
> *-------------------- begin example -------------------
> clear
> input long studyid visit str10 date
> 1001 1 01-01-2000
> 1001 2 15-01-2000
> 1001 3 20-01-2000
> end
>
> gen ndate = date(date, "DMY")
> format ndate %td
>
> bys studyid (ndate) : gen days = cond(_n == 1, ///
> 0, ///
> ndate - ndate[_n-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 )
>
> Hope this helps,
> Maarten
>
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