Re: st: combine 2 variables

[Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com>]

You have not answered all my questions, so at this point I give up.
Someone else may want to guess what you want.
Nick
njcoxstata@gmail.com


On 11 February 2014 20:51, Dao Kim <Kim.Dao@chuv.ch> wrote:
> Id 101 to 175 identifies the patients
>
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> De : owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu [mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] De la part de Dao Kim
> Envoyé : mardi 11 février 2014 21:51
> À : 'statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu'
> Objet : RE: st: combine 2 variables
>
> Hi Nick, dg1 and dg2 are string variables, all the same (hemorrhage, stroke, asphyxia, malformative, infectious, others), I converted them into numeric variables. Each ID has at least 1 diagnosis (dg1), only 5 have a 2nd diagnosis (dg2). In order to analyse diagnoses as a whole. Thanks Here is the description
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> . describe cat_dg1 cat_dg2
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>
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>               storage   display    value
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> variable name   type    format     label      variable label
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> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> cat_dg1         long    %12.0g     cat_dg1
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> cat_dg2         long    %12.0g     cat_dg2
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>
>
> . list cat_dg1 cat_dg2 in 1/10
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>
>
>      +----------------------+
>
>      |    cat_dg1   cat_dg2 |
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>      |----------------------|
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>   1. | hemorrhage         . |
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>   2. |   asphyxic         . |
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>   3. | hemorrhage         . |
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>   4. |     stroke         . |
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>   5. |     others         . |
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>      |----------------------|
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>   6. | hemorrhage         . |
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>   7. |   asphyxic         . |
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>   8. |     others         . |
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>   9. | hemorrhage         . |
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>  10. |   asphyxic         . |
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>      +----------------------+
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>
>
> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu [mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] De la part de Nick Cox Envoyé : mardi 11 février 2014 20:28 À : statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu Objet : Re: st: combine 2 variables
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> Thanks, but we (I) still don't know what your variable types and values are, exactly.
>
> Please show the results of
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> . describe dg1 dg2
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> . list dg1 dg2 in 1/10
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> Also add to the variables above whatever identifies your patients.
> (Use anonymous equivalents by all means if confidentiality is an
> issue.)
>
> Also, show what a new variable should look like.
>
> Nick
> njcoxstata@gmail.com
>
>
> On 11 February 2014 19:22, Dao Kim <Kim.Dao@chuv.ch> wrote:
>> Most of my patients have 1 diagnosis: ie hemorrhage, asphyxia or
>> stroke (variable dg1) Some have 2: hemorrhage and asphyxia (another variable dg2); is it possible to associate these two as only one variable for one patient? I am trying to evaluate the efficacy of a drug according to the diagnosis, there are so few patients with 2 diagnoses (dg2) that it doesn't make sense to use it isolated.  it does this make more sense?
>>
>> -----Message d'origine-----
>> De : owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
>> [mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] De la part de Nick Cox
>> Envoyé : mardi 11 février 2014 20:07 À :
>> statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu Objet : Re: st: combine 2 variables
>>
>> Dao Kim:
>>
>> This is incomprehensible.
>>
>> "combine": what does that mean?
>>
>> "Concat" doesn't work. I guess that you tried -egen, concat()- but what exactly did you try? What do you mean by "doesn't work"?  What did it do? Why isn't that what you want?
>>
>> "merge 1:1 id"  -merge- is for merging two or more datasets. That is a completely different problem from combining two variables.
>>
>> But forget all that.
>>
>> What are your variables?
>>
>> What are your observations?
>>
>> Please show us an example of your data.
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>> Please show us an example of what you want to get.
>>
>>
>> Nick
>> njcoxstata@gmail.com
>>
>>
>> On 11 February 2014 18:59, Dao Kim <Kim.Dao@chuv.ch> wrote:
>>> Dear Statalists, I try to combine two diagnoses variables to one, for patients that mostly only have 1 diagnosis for seizures etiology, but a minority has 2 etiologies/diagnoses, I can't figure out how to make only one variable. Concat doesn't work, I tried to merge 1:1 id , any idea? Thanks for your help!
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