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Re: st: longitudinal data
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Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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Re: st: longitudinal data
Date
Sun, 5 Jun 2011 07:22:36 +0100
Other ways to do it, assuming no missings on -died- :
bysort visit (died) : gen dead = died[_N]
bysort visit (time) : gen dead = died[_N]
Nick
On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 3:42 AM, Eric Booth <[email protected]> wrote:
> bys visit: egen everdead = max(died)
Tina Hernandez-Boussard wrote:
>> I have longitudinal data and I would like to flag a person as dead, =
>> although this information is only contained in their last observation
>>
>> I have created a count of the number of observations for a unique id
>>
>> by visit: gen time =3D _n
>>
>> this is what I am trying, but I am not getting correct results:
>>
>> by visit : gen dead =3D 1 if died =3D=3D 1
>>
>> I would like to have the flag dead=3D1 for all the rows of data for this =
>> person, even though they do not die until _n =3D=3D 5
>>
>> This is only capture the visit they died, and not all of their visits.
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