September 2015 - 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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New MOOC course features Epidata
by EpiData development and support 02 Sep '15

02 Sep '15

Epidata list members may be interested to know that Epidata is featured in a new MOOC (Massive Open On-line course) soon to be offered as part of the by Peking University. It is called Using Software apps in epidemiological research. For those who are not familiar with MOOCS they are free on line courses, often offered by top universities and usually made up of videos, short quizzes and on-line discussion groups. They can have very large enrollment numbers. I enjoy MOOCs and have taken eight or nine already, but I can't do this one as it is in Chinese. Perhaps chinese speaking list members could try it. Here is a link. https://www.coursera.org/course/epiapps?utm_medium=email&utm_source=recomme…. best wishes Christine ______________________________________________________________________________ The information contained in this email and any attachments is confidential and may be legally privileged. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and remove all copies of the message, including any attachments. Any views or opinions expressed in this email (unless otherwise stated) may not represent those of Hutt Valley DHB. Thank you. ______________________________________________________________________________

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Batch conversion of .epx/.epz files to Stata
by EpiData development and support 01 Sep '15

01 Sep '15

Hi! I have a large number of .epx files that require conversion to another format (Stata in this case). Is it possible to do some kind of batch conversion (using the command line tool, for example?). Thanks in advance for the help. María Rodrigo Domingo MSc, PhD, Biostatistician AALBORG UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL Denmark

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