You have two choices: you keep with this long-legged data
structure or you -reshape- to a wide structure.
A -reshape- would be a really good idea if most of your questions
are about individuals, not legs.
If you keep with this data structure, you can still do it.
The principle is that under -by id:-, subscripts are determined within
groups of -id-. So [1] refers to the first leg and [2] to the second leg.
If you are counting only, it doesn't match which leg you count first.
For other purposes, you could specify -bysort id (leg)- and get the
left leg first always (if -leg- is a string variable).
+-----------------+
| id leg vi |
|-----------------|
1. | 40 right . |
2. | 40 left . |
3. | 46 right 1 |
4. | 46 left 1 |
5. | 47 left 0 |
|-----------------|
6. | 47 right 1 |
7. | 48 right . |
8. | 48 left . |
9. | 55 left 1 |
10. | 55 right 1 |
|-----------------|
11. | 57 right 0 |
12. | 57 left 1 |
+-----------------+
. bysort id : gen Nlegs = inrange(vi[1],1,.) + inrange(vi[2],1,.)
Here -inrange()- is 1 if 1 <= vi < . and 0 otherwise. Adding them
up counts legs with ulcers.
. l
+-------------------------+
| id leg vi nlegs |
|-------------------------|
1. | 40 right . 0 |
2. | 40 left . 0 |
3. | 46 right 1 2 |
4. | 46 left 1 2 |
5. | 47 left 0 1 |
|-------------------------|
6. | 47 right 1 1 |
7. | 48 right . 0 |
8. | 48 left . 0 |
9. | 55 left 1 2 |
10. | 55 right 1 2 |
|-------------------------|
11. | 57 right 0 1 |
12. | 57 left 1 1 |
+-------------------------+
But when we count, we want to count individuals,
not legs. This is where -egen, tag()- comes in.
. egen tag = tag(id)
. tab nlegs if tag
nlegs | Freq. Percent Cum.
------------+-----------------------------------
0 | 2 33.33 33.33
1 | 2 33.33 66.67
2 | 2 33.33 100.00
------------+-----------------------------------
Total | 6 100.00
Nick
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Raphael Fraser
> Below is a snippet of my data. Each subject has 2 observation where vi
> indicates whether an ulcer is present or not. I would like to count
> the number of patients with ulcers on one leg only and those with
> ulcers on both legs.
> left=1, right=0
>
> id leg vi
> 40 right .
> 40 left .
> 46 right 1
> 46 left 1
> 47 left 0
> 47 right 1
> 48 right .
> 48 left .
> 55 left 1
> 55 right 1
> 57 right 0
> 57 left 1
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