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Re: st: Combining variables


From   Matthew Anstey <[email protected]>
To   "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject   Re: st: Combining variables
Date   Thu, 15 Aug 2013 19:07:38 -0700

Thanks for allowing me some latitude.

That has helped.

Matt

On 15/08/2013, at 5:15 PM, Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:

> From where, or more precisely when, I sit you seem longitudinally challenged.
> 
> Seriously: it's not completely clear what you want, and it's always a
> good idea to explain exactly what code you tried and what "without
> success" means.
> 
> However, disjoint cross-combinations follow from e.g.
> 
> egen age = group(AGE1 AGE2 AGE3 AGE4), label
> 
> so that those people 1 1 1 1 will be grouped together and so on.
> 
> Your question leaves open what you want to do if the AGE? values
> _don't_ agree, but the command above will group similar responses
> together in any case.
> 
> Nick
> [email protected]
> 
> On 16 August 2013 00:51, Matthew Anstey <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Good afternoon,
>> 
>> I have a single survey dataset that respondents answered questions about multiple patients (up to 4).
>> 
>> Thus for the 4 patients the respondents may have described, they  are recorded as
>> 
>> AGE AGE2 AGE3 AGE4
>> DAYS DAYS2 DAYS3 DAYS4
>> and so on for the 10 characteristics. These are categorical variables (not continuous).
>> 
>> 
>> I want to create a summary variable for each characteristic, that will combine all the patients together into their categories.
>> 
>> For instance,
>> 
>> For instance : age has 4 possible categories (groupings 1, 2 , 3 ,4 ). I want to combine AGE grouping 1 with AGE2 grouping 1, with AGE3 grouping 1 with AGE4 grouping 1 and then AGE2 grouping 2  and so on.
>> 
>> I have been trying  -egen- without success.
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