Extra credit

Extra credit

by Sanithia -
Number of replies: 1

The variables in the acupuncture data set aren't labeled.   Just to check... posths is headache score one year after initiating acupuncture and acu_cat is the number of times they've undergone acupuncture.  Is that correct? Thanks. 

In reply to Sanithia

Re: Extra credit

by Kristen -

Great question!

basehs baseline headache score
posths post treatment headache score
oneyrhs one year followup headache score
acuptreatments number of treatments received
acu_cat categorical variable of number of treatments received

Here is how I created the act_cat variable: 

gen acu_cat = acuptreatments
recode acu_cat 1/5=1 6/10=2 11/15=3
tab acu_cat
label define acu_cat_label 1"1-5" 2 "6-10" 3 "11-15"
label values acu_cat acu_cat_label