st: Re: R�p. : Re: st: tab-delimited output of -tabodds

[Margaret R Grove <margaret.r.grove@Dartmouth.EDU>]

Herve,

My apologies!  I think the first three scalars only occur with a single 
variable for tabodds!

Meg

Herve STOLOWY wrote:

> Dear Margaret:
>
> I thank you for your reply. I tried your solution. However, I have a problem with the first three scalars which do  not show up in the return list. Consequently, when I generate the first three variables (e.g., odds), I only get missing values. Would you have any idea?
>
> Best regards
>
> Herve
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> > > > Margaret R Grove <margaret.r.grove@Dartmouth.EDU> 5:51 pm 3/25/2008 >>>
> > > >         
> Here's a very clunky example of how to get a tab-delimited file of the 
> results of tabodds.  Note that if you are doing multiple tabodds 
> commands, using "postfile" with scalars would make this a bit more elegant.
>
>
> webuse bdesop,clear
>
> tabodds case alcohol [fw=freq]
>
> *** Assign the return codes to variables
> gen odds=r(odds)
>
> gen lb_odds=r(lb_odds)
>
> gen ub_odds=r(ub_odds)
>
> gen chi2_hom=r(chi2_hom)
>
> gen p_hom=r(p_hom)
>
> gen df_hom=r(df_hom)
>
> gen chi2_tr=r(chi2_tr)
>
> gen p_trend=r(p_trend)
>
> *** Keep only the first observation
>
> keep if _n==1
>
> *** Fix up p-values for readability
>
> replace p_hom=0.0001 if p_hom<.0001
>
> replace p_trend=0.0001 if p_trend<.0001
>
> *** output the results to a tab-delimited file
>
> outsheet odds lb_odds ub_odds chi2_hom p_hom df_hom chi2_tr p_trend 
> using test.txt, replace
>
> If you don't need all the variables, just use the ones you need.
>
> Meg
>
> Svend Juul wrote:
>   
> > Herve Stolowy wrote:
> >  
> > Do you know a way to get a tab-delimited file after -tabodds-?
> >  
> > =============================================================
> >  
> > I don't think you can. Some tables are nicely formatted, 
> > and highlighting the table, right-clicking, and selecting 
> > -copy table- generates a tab-separated file. But -tabodds-
> > is poorly formatted with the first three columns run together,
> > and it will not work. To see the formatting, you can paste to 
> > Excel and take a look.
> >  
> > StataCorp: It would be a good idea to make a cleaning operation,
> > i.e., check how the tabular output from various commands are
> > formatted, and make a consistent formatting for those commands
> > that don't do it right.
> >  
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