Re: st: Identifying visits with 1 time period of an event

[Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com>]

The first time when something happened is one and the same as the
minimum time. For panel data, -egen-'s -min()- function serves fine to
identify such times separately by panels.

Here "something" means either -procedure == 1- or -followup == 1- so
specifying either condition can be done by instructing Stata to ignore
anything else. -min()- takes expressions, so that can be made explicit

egen time1 = min( cond(procedure == 1, time, .) ) , by(id)
egen time2 = min( cond(followup == 1, time, .) ), by(id)

This is equivalent and according to taste cunning or cryptic:

egen time1 = min(time/procedure), by(id)
egen time2 = min(time/(followup == 1)), by(id)

Now we are on the home straight and contemplating reward:

gen lag = time2 - time1

gen within1 = (time2 - time1) <= 1

For a self-indulgent exploration of similar trickery, see

http://www.stata-journal.com/article.html?article=dm0055

More concise statements are likely to be possible, but may defy
simultaneous maintenance of sanity and balancing of parentheses.

Nick
njcoxstata@gmail.com

On 17 February 2014 20:23, Paul O'Brien <paul.obrien@afe2.org.uk> wrote:

> I have longitudinal data on visits to a clinic during which a procedure sometimes occurs.
>
> I want to mark follow-up visits if the procedure occurred and mark the visits within 1 time period of the procedure, as in the last two variables here.
>
> clear
> input ///
> id           time      procedure      followup      followup1
> 1                1             0             0             0
> 1                2             1             0             0
> 1                3             0             1             1
> 1                4             0             2             0
> 1                5             0             3             0
> 2                3             1             0             0
> 2                4             0             1             1
> 2                5             0             2             0
> 2                7             0             3             0
> 2                8             0             4             0
> 2                10            0             5             0
> 3                1             0             0             0
> 3                2             0             0             0
> 3                3             0             0             0
> 3                4             0             0             0
> 4                2             0             0             0
> 4                3             1             0             0
> 4                6             0             1             0
> 4                7             0             2             0
> end
>
> I have struggled with _n and _N but cannot get the follow to start after the event.
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