for my project, I would like to match samples of disease patients with controls by demographic data, so for example, I would like to have patients and controls matched on age (within 5-10 years), then gender, then race in that order of importance
is there a way to match subjects in STATA? I was thinking maybe this could be done using a merge function if I created a new age variable that was divided up into 5 or 10 year incrementing units and then merged the file containing the cases with a file containing the controls.
any other ideas?
appreciate any suggestions
Laura