Data which contain Multiple followups with hours variables

[Ameer Muhammad]

Dear Statlist Users,

Hope all you experts are doing great.I wanted to understand how to analyze the data which contains multiple followups, for example data contain 47 followups depend on different days. and each followup contain baby breast feeding practices in 24 hours. Data has been taken hourly ( How many times baby has been fed in per hour ).
if any can one reply please?

[David Benson]

Hi Ameer Muhammad and welcome to Statalist!

It would be helpful if you could share 30-40 observations of your data using Stata's dataex command. If you need help with that, I created a short Youtube video on dataex here. (I made it too long--feel free to watch at 2x speed, and you may only need the first 6 minutes) .

Also, it's not clear what you are asking for, so it would be helpful to show what you would like the data to look like at the end (i.e. how many times has the baby been fed per day?)

Hope that helps!

[Marcos Almeida]

If I understood right, a) you have a longitudinal study; b) yvar is a count variable.

Therefore, you may think about using some sort of - xtpoisson- ‘ish’ model.