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Re: st: Merging observations based on plus-minus quantity
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Eduardo Nunez <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Merging observations based on plus-minus quantity
Date
Thu, 17 Mar 2011 16:37:12 -0400
It looks the right tool.
Thank you so much!
Eduardo
<>
Try using -nearmrg- (from SSC).
See this example: http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2010-01/msg00007.html
- Eric
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Eric A. Booth
Public Policy Research Institute
Texas A&M University
[email protected]
On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 3:14 PM, Dimitriy V. Masterov
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I believe this can be accomplished with nearmrg, which you can install from ssc.
>
> DVM
>
> On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 2:22 PM, Eduardo Nunez <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Dear Statalisters:
>>
>> I have a panel data (panel_1) with information on patients
>> corresponding to medical visits (physician-patient encounter).
>> I also have data (panel_2) with information on lab and procedures from
>> these patients, but with dates that do not match with medical visit
>> dates.
>> I would like to merge observaciones from panel_2 into panel_1 only if
>> the dates are within (± 30 days) of the medical visit dates.
>>
>> I would appreciate any help on this issue,
>>
>> Eduardo
>>
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