Re: st: time-series data identified by three variables

[Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com>]

Yes, as that is what you want.

-by:- is well documented. There are several sections in [U] (use
Index), and I wrote a tutorial as a supplement that is accessible, so
do please read the documentation.

SJ-2-1  pr0004  . . . . . . . . . . Speaking Stata:  How to move step by: step
        . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  N. J. Cox
        Q1/02   SJ 2(1):86--102                                  (no commands)
        explains the use of the by varlist : construct to tackle
        a variety of problems with group structure, ranging from
        simple calculations for each of several groups to more
        advanced manipulations that use the built-in _n and _N

See http://www.stata-journal.com/sjpdf.html?articlenum=pr0004

On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 9:44 AM, YANNAN SHEN <yannan2010@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Nick，
> Thank you for your reply!
> For the first code do you mean
>> bysort illness_id date of visit : egen meansev = mean(severity)
>
>
> Because all I care is on a certain date, what is the average severity across all patient visited for a certain disease.
>
> And how exactly does "bysort" work? Does it treat the argument variables as a group?
> For instance if date=June5; day=5, month=june
> Is bysort month day equivalent to bysort date?
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Nov 28, 2012, at 4:21 AM, Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> You want commands like
>>
>> bysort patient_id illness_id date of visit : egen meansev = mean(severity)
>> by patient_id illness_id : gen repeat = _n - 1
>>
>> as you want to number 0 upwards.
>>
>>
>> Nick
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 6:28 AM, yannan shen <yannan2010@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I am working some panel data of hospital visits and I want to learn
>>> the severity of various disease.
>>> The variables I have in the dataset are: patient_id, illness_id,
>>> date_of_visit, severity
>>> each observation contains: patient_id, illness_id, date_of_visit, severity.
>>>
>>> For each patient (identified by patient_id), I want to know how many
>>> of times he has visited for the same illness （illness_id ).
>>> I use the duple command to to label the observation of patients who
>>> have visited hospital more than once.
>>>
>>>> duplicates tag  patient_id illness_id , generate(duple)
>>>
>>> However, duple does not give information for any time series
>>> information. If a patient has 5 visiting records, I want to be able to
>>> know which is the 0th repeat, 1st repeat, 2nd repeat, 3rd repeat, and
>>> 4th repeat...I have a vague feeling that I can order those variables
>>> via date_of_visit but I am still not sure how exactly that can be
>>> done.
>>>
>>> Furthermore, I want to create two new variables: one variable equals
>>> to the average severity of each disease (disease_id) being treated on
>>> the same date_of_visit. The other variable equals the highest severity
>>> of a certain disease being treated on that day. (Ideally, I want to
>>> create additional variables for each observation)
>>>
>>> I have used “bysort” in the past but since now the type is a
>>> combination of illness_id and date_of_visit， I am a little confused.

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