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Re: st: Database problem
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Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Database problem
Date
Fri, 7 Dec 2012 19:22:55 +0000
If I understand this correctly, I would change the structure of the
data so that you have (in -reshape- terms, a -long- not -wide-
structure).
Even after reversal, this is going to be very awkward to work with, so
it's better to think of another solution.
You probably have some -rename-ing to do first.
Nick
On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 7:16 PM, roland andersson <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have data on 3574 unique patients. In the datase there are first 5
> identification variables ,age, sex and so on. Thereafter comes a
> nomber of variables representing observations. Each observation has
> three columns - the sequential number of the observation, the content
> of the observation and the date. The problem is that these observation
> are in reverse order, ie the last observation comes first and the
> first observation last in the row. And the number of observations for
> each patient range from 1 to 44. Some observations have the same date
> so they have the same sequential number. below is the data. Var 7, var
> 10 and var 13 are the number of the observation, var 8, 11, and 14 the
> observation (the diagnosis or intervention) and var 9, 12 and 15 the
> date of the observation.
>
> I want to reverse the order so that the first observation comes in as
> var 7 etc. I also want to merge observations with the same date with a
> new combined content. case nr 1 below sholuld thus be 1
> diverticulitsigmo 15930. Is this possible?
>
> Regards
> Roland Andersson
>
> var7 var8 var9 var10 var11 var12 var13 var14 var15
> 1 diverticulit 15930 1 sigmo 15930
> 1 akutiverticulit 16670 1 sigmo 16670
> 3 akutiverticulit 17126 2 akutiverticulit 16962 1 akutiverticulit 16359
> 2 akutiverticulit 17019 1 akutiverticulit 17019
> 1 akutiverticulit 15831 1 resektion 15831
> 1 akutiverticulit 16129
> 3 ctbuk 16839 2 sigmo 16838 1 akutiverticulit 16532
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