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RE: st: data structure for case control
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Kieran McCaul <[email protected]>
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"[email protected]" <[email protected]>
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RE: st: data structure for case control
Date
Tue, 11 Dec 2012 09:59:58 +0800
...
If you already have the data for the cases and the controls, why do you want the match them on age?
Matching is a feature of the design of a study and is carried out as the data are collected. In other words, matching is done for efficiency. If you already have the data, there is nothing to be gained by matching.
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Sacamano, Paul L.
Sent: Tuesday, 11 December 2012 6:33 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: st: data structure for case control
That is very helpful. Would it be the same for a study matching cases with controls on age frequency distribution? I currently have two files, one of cases and the other controls. I think I need to create an AGECLASS variable in both and then merge them together matching on AGECLASS. I expect there is a Stata command to then pair them together 1 to 2 within each class.
Thanks again.
Paul
On Dec 10, 2012, at 4:38 PM, Adam Olszewski <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Paul,
> The easy way would be to have one row per observation/patient and each
> variable as one column. There would be one column AGE and one column
> CASECONTROL, which you can assign 1 for cases and 0 for controls. This
> way you can do "standard epidemology table" commands such as -cc- or
> survival analysis with single-line commands using your "casecontrol"
> variable as an indicator of the arm.
> Good luck,
> Adam Olszewski
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 2:59 PM, Sacamano, Paul L. <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am very new to Stata, very much a beginner.
>>
>> I have a case-control study and am not sure how to setup the structure of the data file.
>>
>> Using the variable age as an example, would I have:
>> 1) a variable for CASE_AGE and CONTROL_AGE, or
>> 2) have just one AGE variable, and include a CASE variable and a CONTROL variable?
>>
>> Really appreciate any help you might have.
>>
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