I don't know if this does exactly what you want but look at the Hmisc
library find.matches and matchCases functions:
http://hesweb1.med.virginia.edu/biostat/s/help/Hmisc/html/find.matches.html
You may be able to modify them for what you want.
Frank
On Thu, 23 May 2002 09:22:50 +0200
Stefano <stecalza at tiscali.it> wrote:
>
> Hi.
>
> I've a dataframe with about 46000 women with about 500 cases (cancers).
I
> want to define a case-cohort sampling scheme, matching by age and hospital
> centre. Is there anyone who has already written a code for that? It should
> be something similar to the stcacoh macro in Stata.
>
> TIA,
>
> Stefano
>
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