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Re: st: Need help with combing observations by using by: command along with subscripting


From   Steve Nakoneshny <[email protected]>
To   "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject   Re: st: Need help with combing observations by using by: command along with subscripting
Date   Wed, 6 Feb 2013 10:45:26 -0700

Mike,

Your subscript is pointing in the wrong direction. try substituting [_n+1] in your code. I suspect you will obtain the desired result.

Steve



On 2013-02-06, at 10:12 AM, Michael Stewart wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I need help with following data where I am trying to combine
> observations for each patient
> 
> PATIENTno   dtbirth	  medicalrecordnumber	accountnumber
>    1	          8/10/1907	    1111111	
>    1	           .			                                    dddddddd	
>   2	         12/14/1910	   222222222	
>   2	             .			                                     eeeeee
>   3	          4/16/1914	    33333333	              rrrrrrr
> 
> 
> PATIENTno,medicalrecordnumber & accountnumber -->STRING format
> 
> dtbirth-->%td format
> 
> 
> I need to combine row one and row two for patient 1 so that resultatnt
> row will have information from both rows one and row two
> 
> I tried to use subscripting as follows
> 
> bysort PATIENTno dtbirth: repalce medicalrecordnumber= medicalrecordnumber[_n-1]
> 
> then all values for the medicalrecordnumber are turning to blank spaces
> 
> I also tried bysort PATIENTno dtbirth: repalce medicalrecordnumber=
> medicalrecordnumber[1] but it didnt work either.
> 
> Can you please help.
> 
> --
> Thank you ,
> Yours Sincerely,
> Mike.
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