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Re: st: Setting a reference value by rows for calculating differences
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Maarten Buis <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Setting a reference value by rows for calculating differences
Date
Fri, 17 Jun 2011 08:57:13 +0200
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 8:45 AM, CHERYL BARNABE <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi there, trying to calculate the elapsed time from the baseline (or 1st visit) for each subject to subsequent follow-up visits, not the prior visit, but can't figure out the command to keep the first entry per subject as the reference
<snip>
> by study_id: generate visitmonth=(visitdate-visitdate[_n==1])
that should be:
by study_id: generate visitmonth=(visitdate-visitdate[1])
Hope this helps,
Maarten
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Maarten L. Buis
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Universitaet Tuebingen
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72074 Tuebingen
Germany
http://www.maartenbuis.nl
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