You will have to reshape your followup file from long to wide (so each
case is a main_ID and has variables x_1, x_2 etc representing the
repeated measurements. They use the merge command.
Richard Atkins.
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
>>> [email protected] 06/30/06 12:50 pm >>>
Try the merge command.
Justin White
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ashwin
Ananthakrishnan
Sent: Friday, June 30, 2006 7:48 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: st: Combining two data files and follow-up data in Stata
Hi,
I currently have 2 data files in Stata - the first
file is the main file with a list of all the subjects
in the study organised by a main_ID number. I have a
second file which contains follow-up data - with each
entry representing one follow-up visit. That file is
sorted by the main_ID also but because each patient
has more than 1 follow-up visit, there might be
multiple entries per main_ID.
1. How do I combine these two data files using main_ID
as the common variable?
2. How can I combine the follow-up data such that I
have one 1 record for each main_ID number which lists
the outcome at each follow-up visit?
Thanks,
Ashwin
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