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Re: st: combine 2 variables


From   Nick Cox <[email protected]>
To   "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject   Re: st: combine 2 variables
Date   Tue, 11 Feb 2014 19:06:33 +0000

Dao Kim:

This is incomprehensible.

"combine": what does that mean?

"Concat" doesn't work. I guess that you tried -egen, concat()- but
what exactly did you try? What do you mean by "doesn't work"?  What
did it do? Why isn't that what you want?

"merge 1:1 id"  -merge- is for merging two or more datasets. That is a
completely different problem from combining two variables.

But forget all that.

What are your variables?

What are your observations?

Please show us an example of your data.

Please show us an example of what you want to get.


Nick
[email protected]


On 11 February 2014 18:59, Dao Kim <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear Statalists, I try to combine two diagnoses variables to one, for patients that mostly only have 1 diagnosis for seizures etiology, but a minority has 2 etiologies/diagnoses, I can't figure out how to make only one variable. Concat doesn't work, I tried to merge 1:1 id , any idea? Thanks for your help!
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