Dear Statalisters,
Here it is my (hopefully simple) problem in STATA 10,
Windows environment:
I have a variable reporting dates of an intervention (date_baseline)
Then I would like to create a second variable simply going
100 days forward date_baseline (let us call it
date_followup).
I tried with
Gen date_followup = date_baseline + 100
But unfortunately it creates a new variable reporting date
(well I hope at least) not in MDY format but some thing like
1. | 17103 |
2. | 17113 |
3. | 16518 |
4. | 17106 |
5. | 16697 |
Etc..
The I tried to convert these numbers in dates using
tostring date_followup , replace format(%20.0f)
replace date_followup= date(followup , "MDY")
But it creates only missing values.
How can I fix the problem ?
Thank you in advance,
Diego
