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Re: st: Select a particular test


From   Nick Cox <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: Select a particular test
Date   Fri, 24 Feb 2012 00:22:40 +0000

bysort pat_id : egen select = total(test == "IFA")
by pat_id : egen reject = total(inlist(test, "DFA", "CULT", "BIN"))
keep if select & !reject

Your example implies that some tests might be repeated. If there were
exact rules on such repetition then the code might be shorter; and
possibly otherwise.

Nick

On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 10:57 PM, Peci, Adriana (OAHPP)
<[email protected]> wrote:

> I have a long form database in which each patient identified by pat_id
> have up to four tests performed.
> The test names are:IFA, DFA, CULT, BIN.
> I want to select/know how many patients had IFA but not DFA, CULT, or
> BIN.
>
> Here is an improvise of my data:
>
> Pat_id    Test
> 1         IFA
> 1         DFA
> 1         CULT
> 1         BIN
> 2         BIN
> 2         IFA
> 2         DFA
> 3         IFA
> 4         DFA
> 4         CULT
> 4         CULT
>

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