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Re: st: converting a SAS program to Stata code for use with the HCUP NIS


From   Austin Nichols <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: converting a SAS program to Stata code for use with the HCUP NIS
Date   Fri, 7 Jun 2013 13:49:15 -0400

Alex R Cardenas <[email protected]> :
see
http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2007-11/msg00810.html

On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 1:26 PM, Cardenas, Alex R - (alexc2)
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I am having trouble converting the following program for SAS to an equivalent do file for Stata. This example comes from the HCUP website for use with the Nationwide Inpatient Sample database
>
> LIBNAME In "location of NIS file" ;
>
> DATA Diabetes :
> SET In.nis_2001_core;
> IF dxccs1=50 ;
> dischgs = 1
> RUN;
>
> DATA Combined ;
>  SET Diabetes ;
>  in.nis_2001_hospital(in=inhosp keep=hospid nis-stratum
>  IF inhosp THEN DO;
>  discwt=0;
> died = 0
> dischgs = 0
> los = 0
> totchg = 0
> END;
> RUN;
>
> DATA-NULL_;
>  SET Combined ;
>  FILEREF ;
> IF los <0 THEN los = .
> IF died << 0 THEN died = . ;
>  IF totchg < 0 THEN totchg = . ;
> PUT nis_stratum 1-4 hospid 6-10 died 12 los 14-17dischgs 19 totchg 21-27 +1 discwt ;
>
> What would be the code to do the same thing in Stata? This is supposed to allow you to work on subsets of the database while still calculating proper variances even if some of the strata used for weighting are not represented in your subset.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Alex
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