RE: st: Displaying full variable names using "summarize"

[Fred Wolfe <fwolfe@arthritis-research.org>]

At 12:24 PM 4/5/2006, you wrote:
> Clint gave a good answer.
>
> Another one is to write your own wrapper for -summarize-.
> Here is an example.
>
> . sysuse auto, clear
> (1978 Automobile Data)
>
> . wsummarize
>
>                   Obs      Mean        SD       Min       Max
> price              69   6146.04   2912.44   3291.00  15906.00
> mpg                69     21.29      5.87     12.00     41.00
> rep78              69      3.41      0.99      1.00      5.00
> headroom           69      3.00      0.85      1.50      5.00

<snip>

You could also use -fsum- (ssc install fsum)

. gen thisisaverylongvariablename = age
(473 missing values generated)

. fsum age this

                    Variable 
|        N     Mean       SD      Min      Max 
-----------------------------+---------------------------------------------
                 Age (years) |   218860    61.71    12.84    12.72   103.74
 thisisaverylongvariablename |   218860    61.71    12.84    12.72   103.74




Fred Wolfe
National Data Bank for Rheumatic Diseases
Wichita, Kansas
Tel (316) 263-2125     Fax (316) 263-0761
fwolfe@arthritis-research.org


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