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Re: st: a simple question
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Sergiy Radyakin <[email protected]>
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Re: st: a simple question
Date
Wed, 2 Feb 2011 10:22:51 -0500
generate y=x-2
make sure both x and y are formatted with the date format
Best, Sergiy
On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 10:13 AM, Ricardo Castro <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a dataset with dates in Stata format. I need to create a
> variable with the dates 2 days before the dates I have already.
> I mean if I have 01Jan1999 I need to create a variable 30Dec1998, an
> so on for all the dates, but haven't been able to write a useful code
> for doing that.
> Can you help me?
>
> Many thanks!
>
> Ricardo Castro MD
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