Re: st: showing row labels in -table-

[Michael McCulloch <mm@pinest.org>]

I appreciate your help, Martin. Unfortunately, I don't have the 
skills to re-program ado commands such as -table-.


> Michael,
>
> that is a lot clearer now. I can see your point. One technique that 
> Stata employs for these purposes is a "key" in the upper left corner 
> as in
>
>
> tabulate rep78 foreign, clrchi2 row
>
> Another one is
>
> tabstat price mpg, statistics( mean count ) columns(variables)
>
> where there are row headers. Note, though, that they disappear when 
> you use -by- as in
>
>
> tabstat price mpg, statistics( mean count p1 p50 ) by(foreign) 
> columns(variables)
>
>
>
> You may want to try your luck with -h tabdisp- which, AFAIK, most of 
> these commands call to construct their output.
>
> HTH
> Martin
>
>
>
> I do not think this is possible with -table-, you will probably have to try
>
> Quoting Michael McCulloch <mm@pinest.org>:
>
>
> > Thank you Martin, I apologize. Here's my question, more clearly stated:
> >
> > Is it possible to show the row headers for cell contents in summary
> > tables created with the -table- command? For example, in the following
> > table, stratified horizontally by:
> > 	domestic
> > 	foreign,
> > I have specified that the cell contents should report:
> > 	mean mpg
> > 	mean headroom.
> >
> > What I would like to do is display the row headers "Avg mpg" and "Avg
> > headroom", underneath each of the row super headers Domestic and
> > Foreign.
> >
> > clear
> > sysuse auto
> > tab price
> > gen pricelevel=1
> > replace pricelevel=2 if price>6000
> > table foreign pricelevel, contents(mean mpg mean headroom) col
> > format(%9.2g) cen
> >
> > Therefore, I would like to specify that in this table the left-hand row
> > headers would read:
> > Domestic
> > 	Avg mpg
> > 	Avg headroom
> > Foreign
> > 	Avg mpg
> > 	Avg headroom
> >
> > Hope this is more clear!
> >
> >
> >
> > > Although you demonstrate your problem with the -auto- dataset, I  
> > > still do not get what you want. -pricelevel- has no -value 
> > > labels-;  on top of that, it forms the columns and not the rows. 
> > > When I run  
> > > your example, I get the following:
> > >
> > >
> > > -------------------------------
> > >          |     pricelevel
> > > Car type |   1      2    Total
> > > ----------+--------------------
> > > Domestic |   21     16     20
> > >          |  3.1    3.4    3.2
> > >          |
> > >  Foreign |   27     21     25
> > >          |  2.7    2.5    2.6
> > >
> > >
> > > Maybe you can tell the list what more you want...
> > >
> > > HTH
> > > Martin
> > >
> > > Quoting Michael McCulloch <mm@pinest.org>:
> > >
> > >
> > > > I'm using -table- to create summary tables. Is it possible to show the
> > > > row headers for cell contents?
> > > >
> > > > For example, in this table I can't display pricelevel row labels for
> > > > the cell contents rows:
> > > >
> > > > clear
> > > > sysuse auto
> > > > tab price
> > > > gen pricelevel=1
> > > > replace pricelevel=2 if price>6000
> > > > table foreign pricelevel, contents(mean mpg mean headroom) col
> > > > format(%9.2g) cen
> > > >
> > > > Michael
> > > >
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