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Re: st: need help with summarizing data
From
Cory Smith <[email protected]>
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Re: st: need help with summarizing data
Date
Sun, 10 Feb 2013 15:02:56 -0500
You could collapse the data by name, dt, and procedure and use the
collapse to count the number of occurrences. Then you could reshape it
to a wide format to produce a table like what you've described.
On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 2:54 PM, Michael Stewart
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
> I am trying to find if there is a betterquicker way to do what I am doing
>
> My data is as follows
>
> id name dt procedure
> 1 xxx 2000 eyesurgery
> 1 xxxx 2001 eyesurgery
> 1 xxxx 2002 hernia
> 1 xxxx 2009 hernia
> 2 yyy 2010 hernia
> 2 yyy 2011 cardiacsurgery
> 2 yyy 2012 eyesurgery
> 2 yyy 2012 eyesurgery
>
> I am interested in making a excel file or a stata dataset as follows for
>
> id name eyesurgery_2000 eyesurgery_2001.......eyesyrgery2012
> 1 xxxx 1 1 0
> 2 yyyy 0 0 2
>
> I use tabulate, copy it into excel file (use import wizard) and then
> import into stata
> Is there a quicker way??
>
> --
> Thank you ,
> Yours Sincerely,
> Mike.
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