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Re: st: help with bys


From   "Austin Nichols" <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: help with bys
Date   Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:06:44 -0400

You might try
egen nvisits = sum(visit>=0 &visit<999), by(studyid)
or am I misunderstanding the desideratum?

On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 1:01 PM, Ziad El-Khatib <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi!
> I am dealing with cohort data for patients followed over different
> visits, before starting treatment (coded -1) then on different time
> points coded as 0, 2, 4, 8, 12, 20, 24, 36, 52, 78 and 104, also
> number 999 will be used if it was an unexpected visit to clinic.
>
> Not all patients came to all visits, so I am using -bys- command
> (pasted below) to calculate total number of visits, excluding codes -1
> and 999.
> The command below is still calculating all visits by living . value if
> visit=-1 or visit=999
>
> bys studyid: gen nvisits = _N if visit>=0 &visit<999
>
>
> Any tips?
> Thank you and best regards
> ziad
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