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Re: st: interested in tabvals
Thank you Maarten!
The program is actually in this message. If you scroll down you see
inside the message by Michael a bunch of Stata code beginning with:
program define tabvals
and ending with:
end
Copy those lines and store them in a file called tabvals.ado in your
personal adopath. To find your personal adopaht type -adopath- in Stata
and look at the path labeled (PERSONAL). It is probably best to find
the original message by Michael so you won't have to edit out all the
"> >>". Also take care of line breaks.
Hope this helps,
Maarten
--- Michael McCulloch <[email protected]> wrote:
Hello Statalist members,
This -tabvals- program looks useful. I have searched the Stata site
and the web without success. Is this a program that can be obtained
for use?
Thank you.
>thank you for sharing your program, and thanks to all statalisters
who
>contributed to the discussion.
>
>Unfortunately, I have not managed to use *tabvals* successfully.
>
>By typing:
>
>sysuse auto, clear
>replace rep78=. if rep78==1
>tabvals rep78, values(1 2 3 4 5)
>
>I get:
>
>. tabvals rep78, values(1 2 3 4 5)
>option if required
>r(198);
>
>The syntax command in your code is likely to contain the information
>on how to use the "if" option... but I must be missing somenthing:
>*tabvals* refuses to cooperate with me... I would appreciate any
help.
>
>- Giovanni
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [email protected]
>> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
>> Michael Blasnik
>> Sent: Friday, May 11, 2007 5:10 PM
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: st: an ordinary two-way table
>>
>> I just recalled that I had written a program with the same
>> goal a while back and it will do what you ask:
>>
>> program define tabvals
>> version 8.0
>> *! v 1.0 M Blasnik
>> syntax varlist( min=1 max=2) [if] [in], values(numlist)
>> [MISSing] * if "`missing'"!="" { local novarlist "novarlist"
>> }
>> marksample touse , `novarlist'
>> loca l var: word 1 of `varlist'
>> qui levels `var' if `touse', local(hasvals) `missing'
>> local addvals: list values - hasvals
>> local tempobs: word count `addvals'
>> if `tempobs'>0 {
>> preserve
>> local origN=_N
>> qui expand `tempobs'+1 in l
>> tempvar real
>> qui gen byte `real'=(_n<=`origN')
>> qui replace `touse'=1 in -`tempobs'/l
>> forvalues i=1/`tempobs' {
>> local obsn=`origN'+`i'
>> local val: word `i' of `addvals'
>> qui replace `var'=`val' in `obsn'
>> }
>>
>> noi tab `varlist' if `touse', subpop(`real') `missing' `options'
>> restore
>> }
>> else {
>> noi tab `varlist' if `touse' , `missing' `options'
>> }
>> end
>>
>> Hopefully there aren't any word wrap problems or you may need
>> to fix this code up. It lets you specify a values numlist
>> that applies to the first variable in the tabulate command.
>> It allows you to specify a second variable but does not
>> create new values for that one. Since it relies on Stata's
>> tabulate command, it provides all of the options allowed with
>> tabulate.
>>
>> Michael Blasnik
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Giovanni Vecchi" <[email protected]>
>> To: <[email protected]>
>> Sent: Friday, May 11, 2007 10:07 AM
>> Subject: RE: st: an ordinary two-way table
>>
>>
>> > Chris and Nick, thanks for your suggestions. As you both say,
the
>> > problem with tabcount is that it does not allow row and
>> column totals.
>> >
>> > I'm always puzzled when I find Stata unable to offer easy
answers
>to
>> > easy questions (as the one raised in my posting). Faced with
the
>> > failure to produce a simple two-way table, I ask myself: is it
me
>or
>> > is it Stata? And my answers start looping ... "it's me",
> >> "it's Stata",
>> > "it's me", "it's Stata",... time goes by,
>> frustration/irritation start
>> > off, etc...
>> >
>> > A quick reaction to Nick's suggestion. In my opinion, there is
an
>> > issue on the opportunity cost of pursuing a Mata-based
strategy.
>My
>> > guess is that it is high for most Stata users.
>> >
>> > My point: ordinary two-way tables should be within the reach of
>> > Mata-almost-illiterate users. Needless to say, I am an
outstanding
>> > member of this club.
>> >
>> > A bottom line: hope StataCorp is sympathetic to my argument...
:)
>> >
>> > Best,
>> >
>> > - Giovanni
>>
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