David wrote:
Suppose I have list of variables as follows:
diag3201
diag4201
diag8203
diag9201
diag9202
diag9203
diag9204
diag10214
diag10218
diag11201
...
The last three digits for each variable are the same; starts with 201
and end with 222 for some of them. The first digits indicate a
diagnosis. For instance, for diagnosis 98 we have variables diag98201
till diag98207, for diagnosis 9 we have variables diag9201-diag9204. I
want to generate new variables for the diagnoses that equal to the sum
of the variables that relate to this diagnosis. For example I want to
generate diag98=diag98201+ diag98202+ …+ diag98207 or diag9=diag9201+
diag9202+..diag9207.
I know how to do it for one diagnosis at a time, I use egen diag98=
rsum(diag98201-diag98207), but I need to do it for a large number of
diagnoses so how can I do it for all of them?
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Write:
egen diag98 = rsum(diag98*)
In Stata 9 the name changed to the more telling -rowsum()-, but -rsum()-
still works.
Svend
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