Re: st:supertables, please. (Tufte 1983 :179)

[adiallo5@worldbank.org]

Hi,
I have a program - tablemat.ado-  to do that.
Kit Baum has drawn my attention to some bugs
that have been fixed now.
It is still under development to make it more elegant.

Basically, instead of doing

tabstat x, by(y1)
tabstat v, by(y2)
tabstat z, by(y3)

the program does:

tablemat x v z, by(y1 y2 y3) stat(mean)

Gindo could contact me privately to have it.

Best regards.



                                                                                                                                               
                      Friedrich Huebler                                                                                                        
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You can do this with -tabstatmat- and -mat2txt- from SSC.

. sysuse auto, clear
. tabstat mpg weight, by(foreign) nototal save
. tabstatmat mat1
. tabstat mpg weight, by(rep78) nototal save
. tabstatmat mat2
. tabstat mpg weight, save
. tabstatmat mat3
. matrix mat = mat1 \ mat2 \ mat3
. mat2txt, matrix(mat) saving(matrix.txt)

Friedrich Huebler

--- Gindo Tampubolon <gindo.tampubolon@manchester.ac.uk> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I wonder if there's any one can help me with producing a supertable
> (Tufte, E. The Visual Display of Quantitative Information. :179)?
> An example he produced for NYT looks like this:
> in per cent                 Carter   Reagan  Anderson
> Democrat                    xx         xx          xx
> Rep.                           xx          xx          xx
> Independent                xx          xx          xx
> ----------------------------------------------------
> Age group
>  18-21                         xx          xx          xx
> . . .                             xx          xx          xx
> ----------------------------------------------------
> Education
>   . .                            xx          xx          xx
> etc.
>
> Basically, one super column from categories of a variable
> and many rows from many variables.
> I tried
> -table  , by(superrowvarlist)- but doesn't do the trick. Or perhaps
> I'm
> wrong?
>
> Used to do it on SPSS ages ago... :(
>
> Stata 8SE on XP
>
> Many thanks for your help.
> --
> Gindo
>
> Gindo Tampubolon
> Sociology
> School of Social Sciences
> University of Manchester




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