st: RE: RE: Complicated counting

["Moore, Jesse" <Jesse.Moore@vtmednet.org>]

Worked beautifully, thanks so much.

JSM

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[mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of Nick Cox
Sent: Monday, May 14, 2007 15:43
To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
Subject: st: RE: Complicated counting


bysort ProviderId Hospital : gen count = _n == 1 
by ProviderId : replace count = sum(count) 
by ProviderId : replace count = count[_N] 

OR 

bysort ProviderId (Hospital) : gen count = sum(Hospital !=
Hospital[_n-1]) 
by ProviderId : replace count = count[_N] 

OR 

egen tag = tag(ProviderId Hospital)
egen count = total(tag), by(ProviderId) 

OR 

The beast is canned as -egen, nvals()- in -egenmore- from SSC. 

egen count = nvals(Hospital), by(ProviderId) 

AND see

FAQ     . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  Number of distinct
observations
        . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . N. J. Cox and G.
Longton
        4/02    How do I compute the number of distinct observations?
                http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/data/distinct.html
Nick 
n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk 

Jesse Moore MD 
 
> This is perhaps a mundane question (compared to some posts), but 
> important to me nonetheless: My data looks like this:
> ProviderID    Hospital    
> A                    1
> A                    1
> A                    1
> A                    1
> B                    1
> B                    1
> B                    2
> 
> I would like to create a variable with the number of
> hospitals that each
> provider has worked at.  For provider A it would be 1, for 
> provider B it
> would be 2.

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