Re: st: AW: simple sum() question

[Shehzad Ali <sia500@york.ac.uk>]

Hi Martin and Josiane,

Thank you for your replies. You are right that I am interested in the total 
count of visits for each patient and not the running sum.

Sorry, I should have mentioned that patients who had three visits, for 
instance, have three observations, and those with two visits have two 
observations. Therefore, the total number of observations for 100 patients 
is less than 400 (I had made up hypothetical numbers in haste to simplify 
the case. Not always a good idea).

With Martin's solution, I will need to have four observations for each 
patient (sorry this was my fault as I didn't provide the correct 
information). With Josiane's suggestion, the dataset collapses which is not 
what I want.

Can you suggest a modified solution please? Again, sorry for the unclear 
email earlier.

Thank you, 
Shehzad

On Apr 15 2009, Martin Weiss wrote:

> <> 
>
> I am betting that you want a count of visits, not a running sum, but 
> correct me if I am wrong...
>
>
> *************
> clear*
> set obs 400
> egen float patient = seq(), from(1) to(400) block(4)
> egen float visit = seq(), from(1) to(4) block(1)
>
> //not strictly necessary
> xtset patient visit
>
> //less than 4 visits for some
> replace visit =. if runiform()<0.05
>
> bys patient: egen overallvisits=count(visit)
>
> l in 1/20, sepby(patient) noo
> *************
>
>
>
> HTH
> Martin
>
>
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> Betreff: st: simple sum() question
>
> Hi,
>
> I have a simple question about summing across observations. I have 100 
> patients (variable: patient_id) in the dataset, each had clinic visits 
> (variable: clinic) and hospital visits (variable: hospital) recorded at 
> weeks 4, 8, 12 and 16. The dataset is long and hence I have 400 
> observations (one observation per patient per time point).
>
> I want to sum the clinic visits for each patient (across all 4 visits) 
> bearing in mind that some patients had less than 4 visits. So effectively 
> I want to generate a new variable that will produce the sum of clinic 
> visits for each patient.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Thank you,
> Shehzad
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