Michael Oakes
>
> Tabstat is useful module, permitting one to select statistics to be
> displayed. For example:
>
> . tabstat q7a q7b q7c, stats(n mean median) column(s)
>
> variable | N mean p50
> -------------+------------------------------
> q7a | 254 6.185039 7
> q7b | 255 5.011765 5
> q7c | 254 5.61811 6
> --------------------------------------------
>
> I like means to be displayed to only 2 decimal places. I can format my
> variables and ask for formatted output, such as
>
> . format q7a - q7c %9.2f
>
> . tabstat q7a q7b q7c , stats(n mean median) column(s) f
>
> variable | N mean p50
> -------------+------------------------------
> q7a | 254.00 6.19 7.00
> q7b | 255.00 5.01 5.00
> q7c | 254.00 5.62 6.00
> --------------------------------------------
>
> But then all the table elements are formatted 9.2f!
>
> Is there an easy way to just get means (or any given) column formatted
> uniquely?
The short answer, I believe, is No, not within -tabstat-.
I had the same issue recently and issued two
-tabstat- commands, one with the format I
wanted for means (and in my case SDs as well)
and one with default format. I then joined the
tables in my favourite text editor. Not ideal,
but seemingly the best that could be done,
apart from writing my own program, which seemed
more work for my problem.
Not your problem, but somewhere in cyberspace is a suggestion I made
that N in -tabstat- should always, or at least
by default, be shown as an integer with no decimal places
whenever it was in fact an integer. But even that might not
be what was always wanted.
Nick
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