Shehzad,
egen total_weeks = total(weeks), by(stratum)
HTH,
Eva
2008/9/23 Shehzad Ali <[email protected]>:
> Hi,
>
> I have an individual patient level data with two variables of interest, one
> is the number of weeks spent by each patient in the study (values between 1
> and 52) and other being stratum they belong to (values between 1 and 3). I
> want to generate a new variable (total_weeks) that summarises the total
> number of weeks spent by each stratum. So the new variable will have 3
> values only, one for each stratum. I can obviously use -sum- and -r(sum) to
> generate separate variables by strata but I was wondering there must be a
> quicker way of doing it in one line. Can you advise please?
>
> Thank you,
>
> Shehzad
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