Wow, thanks that worked perfectly. So simple.
Dave
>>> Fred Wolfe <[email protected]> 4/14/2006 2:16 PM >>>
You could use fsum. ssc install fsum.
Fred
At 02:12 PM 4/14/2006, David Merriman wrote:
>There is probably a simple solution to this problem but I can't find
>it:
>
>I have a bunch of long variable names (30 or more characters). I
want
>to send a list of simple descriptive statistics to my coauthors and
so
>ran summarize. The problem is that the left-most column is truncated
at
>16 characters or so, so the variable names are indecipherable. There
>doesn't seem to be an option to changes this in summarize, changing
line
>linesize doesn't help, and really can't think of any other way to do
it
>(I could probably use collapse and list but that seems awfully round
>about) I am hoping someone has a simple idea. Thanks
>
>
>
>
>
>David Merriman
>School of Business Administration
>Loyola University Chicago
>1 E. Pearson Street
>Room 534
>Chicago, Illinois 60611
>phone 312-915-6071
>fax 312-915-8508
>e-mail [email protected]
>
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National Data Bank for Rheumatic Diseases
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