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Re: st: On event pr 60 days
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Nick Cox <[email protected]> 
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Re: st: On event pr 60 days 
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Tue, 5 Mar 2013 13:26:19 +0000 
Identifying events within 60 days of the first event is just
bysort id (date) :  ??? if date - date[1] <= 60
but I don't know what ??? would be in your case as I don't know what
you mean by adding to the first event.
See also -panelthin- from SSC.
Nick
On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 1:12 PM, anne broe <[email protected]> wrote:
> I need to be able to identify several events within 60 days of the first
> record to be recorded as one event.
>
>  My data look like this
> id   date             event
> 1   01.01.2005     xxx
> 1   02.01.2005     xxy
> 1   02.05.2005     xxx
>
> I would like to identify the first event and add any event within 60 days
> to the first event. Any event after 60 days should have its own record, and
> any event within 60 days after this event be recorded as the second event
> etc.
>
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