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Re: st: How to sort out missing data


From   "Ziad El-Khatib" <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: How to sort out missing data
Date   Tue, 20 Nov 2007 06:54:49 -0800

Thank you a lot!
best regards
ziad


On Nov 20, 2007 6:17 AM, Maarten buis <[email protected]> wrote:
> --- Ziad El-Khatib <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > I have cohort patients following on visit: 0,2,4,8,12,16,20,24,36&52
> > When I tab the dataset i see that the total number of patients per
> > visit is not consistent.
> >
> > Is it possible to sort out the studyid number of patients who did not
> > come on every visit?
> > if yes, would it be possible to find at which visit number?
>
> asuming your data is in long format, your id variable is called id,
> your visit variable is called visit, and you are looking for missing
> values in the variable called var:
>
> list id visit if missing(var)
>
> assuming your data is in wide format and you are looking for for
> missing values in variables var0, var2, ..., var52 (the values for var
> at visit 1/52):
> list id var* if missing(var0, var2, var4, var8, var12, var16, var20,
> var24, var36, var52)
>
> Hope this helps,
> Maarten
>
>
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