January 2012 - EpiData-list - University of Manitoba Mailing Lists

Jumps in Epidata Entry
by epidata-list＠lists.umanitoba.ca 15 Jul '26

15 Jul '26

Dear list, I have two questions regarding Jumps in EpiData Entry. 1) I want to jump to variable v10 if de score for v8 is 1 to 7. Of course this works: v8 RANGE 1 9 COMMENT LEGAL USE oplcat JUMPS 1 v10 2 v10 3 v10 4 v10 5 v10 6 v10 7 v10 END MUSTENTER END Is a shorter syntax possible and if so, how? 2) Is it possible to make a jump defination that depends on the value entered in a previous question? For example: After entering the value for variable v5 I want to jump to v8 if the answer on question v3=1. Kind Regards, Pieter van Groenestijn The Netherlands

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fill fields from COMMENT LEGAL file
by epidata-list＠lists.umanitoba.ca 15 Jul '26

15 Jul '26

I'm studying the copydata example to learn how to extract several variables from a file identified in a COMMENT LEGAL statement. In A3.chk, the statement "TYPE COMMENT atransfer" appears. What is atransfer? I don't see where it has been defined as a variable and I don't find it as a system variable. Further, the program seems to be parsing the string in atransfer according to the position of punctuation. Where is the format of this string defined? Perhaps to be a bit more explicit: I have file with a list of CHWs: District, Village, CHW name and a survey conducted by the CHWs. As the data is entered for the survey, I'd like to present pick lists to facilitate entry. The data is quite strictly hierarchical: Villages occur within Districts, an CHWs live in villages. Thank you,

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Unique key in EpiData Manager for Mac?
by epidata-list＠lists.umanitoba.ca 27 Jan '12

27 Jan '12

Hello all, I recently download EpiDataManager and -Client for Mac. I'm now recoding all my files in terms of valuelabel settings, checks and, most importantly for me now, unique keys. How can I do this? There is no solution button-wise and I cannot find a solution coding it into the .epx file Hope there's someone out there who can help me! -- Kind regards, Remco La Rivière *T* +31(0)6 12 21 78 63 *E *remcolariviere(a)gmail.com *W* http://www.remcolariviere.nl * * **

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"error building data form..."
by epidata-list＠lists.umanitoba.ca 27 Jan '12

27 Jan '12

Dear All, Any experiences with getting the error message "error building data form..." when opening a rec file? I have rec files sent to me from different database locations and this is the first time I have had a problem opening a rec file for this database. Any suggestions? Many thanks, Louise

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RE: [EpiData-list] problems in the installation
by epidata-list＠lists.umanitoba.ca 20 Jan '12

20 Jan '12

Hi Claudio, Is this line: "c:\Documents and settings\Claudio\Configurações locais\Dados de aplicativos\\epidataentryclient\epidataentryclient.cfg" exactly what you got from the software error message window? If so, it could be because Epidata doesn't support accents such as " õ " in the path to the file (or doesn't support the double back-slah " \\ " ??) Perhaps could you try saving your projet directly under "c:\Documents and settings\Claudio\" Best YMP ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yves MARTIN-PREVEL, Epidemiologist, MD, MSc, PhD UMR204 'Nutripass' IRD/Montpellier2/Montpellier1 Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD) BP 64501 - 911, avenue d'Agropolis 34394 MONTPELLIER CEDEX 5 (France) yves.martin-prevel(a)ird.fr Tel: +33(0)4.67.41.61.68 (Caution! NEW EXTENSION) - Fax: +33(0)4.67.41.61.57 http://www.nutripass.ird.fr/ http://www.cilss.bf/nusapps/ -----Message d'origine----- De : epidata-list-bounces(a)lists.umanitoba.ca [mailto:epidata-list-bounces@lists.umanitoba.ca] De la part de epidata-list(a)lists.umanitoba.ca Envoyé : Tuesday, January 17, 2012 7:25 PM À : epidata-list(a)lists.umanitoba.ca Objet : [EpiData-list] problems in the installation Hello. I am very grateful the team of Epidata I am having problems in the installation of the Epidata mananger. I complete the installation without problems. In the moment of saving my project he/she appears the following message: Unable to criate flie "c:\Documents and settings\Claudio\Configurações locais\Dados de aplicativos\\epidataentryclient\epidataentryclient.cfg" With options Press Ok to ignore and risk data corruption Press Cancel to kil the program I use Windows XP Professional Service Pack 3 Can anyone please help me? Tanks a lot. Beste regards Dr. Claudio Teixeira Epidemiologia do H. Ferreira Machado _______________________________________________ EpiData-list mailing list EpiData-list(a)lists.umanitoba.ca http://lists.umanitoba.ca/mailman/listinfo/epidata-list

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problems in the installation
by epidata-list＠lists.umanitoba.ca 18 Jan '12

18 Jan '12

Hello. I am very grateful the team of Epidata I am having problems in the installation of the Epidata mananger. I complete the installation without problems. In the moment of saving my project he/she appears the following message: Unable to criate flie "c:\Documents and settings\Claudio\Configurações locais\Dados de aplicativos\\epidataentryclient\epidataentryclient.cfg" With options Press Ok to ignore and risk data corruption Press Cancel to kil the program I use Windows XP Professional Service Pack 3 Can anyone please help me? Tanks a lot. Beste regards Dr. Claudio Teixeira Epidemiologia do H. Ferreira Machado

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Suggestions for Analysis
by epidata-list＠lists.umanitoba.ca 08 Jan '12

08 Jan '12

Hello, Good year 2012 for Epidata members I have three suggestions about plans to improve Analysis : 1- Command "freq" : by default or with a new /"x", to sort ascending to even negative numbers or "0" number. With /sa ou others, sometimes, results of "freq" are mixed.. 2- Command "lifetable" : P50 (median) is sometimes false for little size of sample. 3- Command "scatter" : like with Epi-Info Dos, "/r", after scatter, was useful for the line of linear regression. Why not in Epidata Analysis ? Thank you for your work. Bernard Branger, Nantes, France (teacher of EPIDATA...)

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Today's date issue
by epidata-list＠lists.umanitoba.ca 04 Jan '12

04 Jan '12

Hello I encountered a strange issue with today's date. The relational database looks like this: 1 parent file (Demographics) and 3 child files (midwife, 48-hour and 2-week) Each file includes today's date and worked well until I opened the file this morning and today's date is stuck on "30/12/2011". I tried to: * include a new today's date and the date is not automatically filled-out * delete today's date -save it - open rec file - close and add today's date to the qes-file - still today's date isn't filled out. If I create a qes file with only today's date included then the rec file does produce the correct today's date (03/01/2012). I asked program staff to enter one record and today's date updated itself to 03/01/2012. I am glad that this happened, however, I am not sure if this is a temporary or a permanent fix. Have you encountered a similar issue? If so, do you know what the problem might be and how I can solve this problem? Thanks, Renate

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Suggestions for Analysis
by epidata-list＠lists.umanitoba.ca 01 Jan '12

01 Jan '12

Hello, Good year 2012 for Epidata members I have three suggestions about plans to improve Analysis : 1- Command "freq" : by default or with a new /"x", to sort ascending to even negative numbers or "0" number. With /sa ou others, sometimes, results of "freq" are mixed.. 2- Command "lifetable" : P50 (median) is sometimes false for little size of sample. 3- Command "scatter" : like with Epi-Info Dos, "/r", after scatter, was useful for the line of linear regression. Why not in Epidata Analysis ? Thank you for your work. Bernard Branger, Nantes, France (teacher of EPIDATA...)

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