I will be out of the office starting 09/27/2008 and will not return until
10/06/2008.
If you require immediate assistance, please contact Celina Sousa at
extension 5300.
Thank-you,
Alyshia
Dear Epidata list,
I am looking for a way to generate a date-variable from a
numerical-variable.
i.e. I will type in the Danish central person registration number (10
digits where the 6 first digits are the birthday ddmmyy) I would like to
automatically create a date variable from this - to calculate ages at
later dates.
I have looked for a chk that would do it, but couldn't find any.
Does anybody have a solution?
(and sorry if this has been discussed before, I searched and couldn't
find any relevant discussion threads)
thanks in advance,
Drude Molbo,
data admin
dept. of social medicine, KU
DK
One comment and one query
Use of brackets in AR% column
I just wondered if it was necessary to use brackets in the AR% tables in attack rate tables. The reason I ask is that when I open an Epidata output (html file) using Excel the AR% columns show as negative numbers - I suppose because Excel thinks the brackets indicate a negative number.
Not equal to blank in date fields
I am having trouble wtih an if then statement where I want to do something if a date field is not blank.
I know that Epidata will accept (.) for blank dates as it accepts
If vomdate =(.) and diadate = (.) then onsetdate = (.)
But it does not accept
If vomdate =(.) and diadate <> (.) then onsetdate = diadate
Could someone please suggest a better code for "not blank" with a date field?
thanks
Christine
Christine Roseveare
Analyst
Regional Public Health
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EPIC.exe has a bug. It failes with a pointer error Access Violation when trying to use the export to "Stata7" option. It does leave a small Stata .dta file which has a size of 717 bytes. Stata hangs on trying to open this small file.
Specifying the Stata, Stata5 and Stata6 options works fine. I've tried the command in various formats (lower/uppercase etc), on local hard drive, network drive etc. Windows XP. Any chances of a quick fix?
This is a problem for me because Stata6 only has 8-character variable names, whereas Stata7 doesn't have this limitation. With EpiC, my Stata data cleaning process could work automatically from the most recent data entry version.
Would a 200 Euro donation to the Epidata association help fix this problem at some point in time?
HERE IS AN ERROR LOG:
====================
C:\tmp>EpiC.exe export stata7 file1.rec file1.dta
EpiC - the EpiData command application version 3.1 10. Jan. 2006
(C) Copyright 2002-2006 - EpiData Association, http://www.epidata.dk
Programmed by M.Bruus. Design: JM.Lauritsen & M.Bruus
0 % doneException EAccessViolation in module EpiC.exe at 00001C3C.
Access violation at address 00401C3C in module 'EpiC.exe'. Write of address 0000
0004.
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Yours,
Jan Brogger
Hello,
Is it possible to create SPC Charts in Epidata Analysis- if so, what is
the procedure?
Thanks
Shakeel
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Hello,
1- In Analysis, the width of variable codes is 20 characters
with "freq" or "tables".
Is it possible to increase this width ?
I have variable codes> 20 characters.
2- In related file ("daughter file"), I need, for a calculation,
of a variable in "father file". How to proceed ?
Thank you.
Bernard BRANGER, Nantes, France
I am new to epi-data analysis. I set up a test file called test.csv to
practice. However, I am getting the following message. Any advice would
be appreciated:
Access is denied
Operation aborted
Separators: (tab: 0)(semicolon: 0)(comma: 0)(space: 0) Lines: 1
Cannot define number of variables
.. check data file - cannot open..
Operation aborted
Operation aborted
Separators: (tab: 0)(semicolon: 0)(comma: 0)(space: 0) Lines: 1
Cannot define number of variables
.. check data file - cannot open..
Operation aborted
Operation aborted
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Hi, Peter
Thanks for your help.
We are using Java as the primary language in the project. It seems that you also try to do a job like that. We will contribute the Java code to the community if possible :)
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Hi,
I am working on a goverment project in which we have to handle about 3000 EPIData files. Different fields exist in different files and the same field's names are not extract matched among files such as age0 and ageForFirstTime.
Obviously, it takes too much human resources to merge those files and we want to develop a program to do the job. And we have to know the file format for both .qes and .rec files.
Does anyone knows where we can get the specification for those files?