st: Re: Query for OR calculation

["Michael Blasnik" <michael.blasnik@verizon.net>]

You can use tabi:

tabi 33 8 / 8 10, replace
expand pop
rename row visited
rename col reintegrate

You may want to recode the variables since the natural coding here will be 
1=yes, 2=no

Michael Blasnik

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Todd Swarthout" <todd.swarthout@medecinsdumonde.net>
To: <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu>
Sent: Friday, April 20, 2007 11:53 AM
Subject: st: Query for OR calculation



> Hello. I have what I assume to be a relatively simple question...
>
> For an HIV programme in Benin we had 59 persons lost to follow-up.
> We were able to do home visits for 41 persons, after which 33 returned to 
> clinical care.
> Of those 18 we were not able to visit, only 8 returned to clinical care.
>
> What is the most efficient way to create a mini database to define the odds 
> ratio...the odds of returning for clinical care after a home visit as compared 
> to those not visited. I could simply go into the Data Editor of a blank 
> database and enter the numbers...but Id like to type in the data.
>
>
> Visited 41 (33 reintegrated)
> Not Visited 18 (8 reintegrated)
> Total 59
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