thanks for your sugggestions
let me write a program to fix it
Chuntao
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 4:32 PM, Martin Weiss <[email protected]> wrote:
> Line for the server...
>
>
>
> Well, the -h tabstatmat- advises you: "In particular, a call that requests
> multiple statistics for multiple groups and multiple variables is not
> suitable. tabstatmat cannot be smart about detecting such calls and
> labelling rows or columns correctly."
>
>
> HTH
> Martin
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of User Stata
> Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2008 7:32 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: st: tabstatmat: are there difference between lab version vs non-lab
> versions? or a bug?
>
> Dear Users,
>
> my students is using Stata 10.0 but find that tabstatmat cannot
> work here properly
>
> please try the following program to test it
>
> *program 1:
>
> clear
> set obs 100
>
> forval i = 1(1) 2 {
> gen x`i' = uniform()
> }
> gen y = uniform()>0.3
> tabstat x1-x2, by(y) s(N mean sd ) c(s) long save
> tabstatmat a
>
> the output is as following:
>
> . tabstatmat a
>
> a[6,3]
> N mean sd
> 0 24 .52799754 .31000402
> 1 24 .56384267 .27788796
> Total 76 .48501671 .30646846
> Total 76 .51454554 .30574073
> Total 100 .49533211 .30630202
> Total 100 .52637685 .29867098
>
>
> the program here is that the last four rows are all lebeled as Total
>
> with the following program, you will find more serious problems:
>
>
>
>
> clear
> set obs 100
>
> forval i = 1(1) 4 {
> gen x`i' = uniform()
> }
> gen y = uniform()>0.3
> tabstat x1-x4, by(y) s(N mean sd ) c(s) long save
> tabstatmat a
>
>
> clear
> set obs 100
>
> forval i = 1(1) 4 {
> gen x`i' = uniform()
> }
> gen y = uniform()>0.3
> tabstat x1-x4, by(y) s(N mean sd ) c(s) long save
> tabstatmat a
>
>
> . tabstatmat a
> conformability error
> r(503);
>
> end of do-file
>
> r(503);
>
>
> actually i find that when there are more than 4 variables, this error
> will always appear
>
>
> in another of my program, i even find another error message:
>
>
> . tabstat emp RD2 RND_D np2 np_d new_process if SOE & year==2002,
> by(sector) save
>
> Summary statistics: mean
> by categories of: sector
>
> sector | employee RD2 RND_D np2 np_d
> new_pr~s
> -----------------+----------------------------------------------------------
> --
> Garment & leathe | 4.715734 .0016361 .1397849 .0487634 .1182796
> .2043011
> Electronic equip | 5.12713 .0170868 .5517241 .1807552 .4655172
> .6034483
> Electronic parts | 5.0808 .0145687 .4363636 .1641173 .5
> .4818182
> Auto & auto part | 5.595137 .0107206 .4388489 .1765173 .5035971
> .4460432
> Food processing | 5.108645 .0016465 .3 .124515 .4
> .4
> Chemical product | 5.082825 .0024898 .2258065 .0319387 .2580645
> .2580645
> Metallurgical pr | 4.911888 .0179259 .2597403 .0970013 .2987013
> .2727273
> Transportation e | 3.84033 .0000513 .0833333 .0125 .0833333
> .0833333
> -----------------+----------------------------------------------------------
> --
> Total | 5.104794 .0106054 .3481481 .1272354 .3759259
> .3833333
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> --
>
> . tabstatmat SEO_sectors
> Metallurgicalproducts(manuf: operator invalid
> r(198);
>
> end of do-file
>
> r(198);
>
>
> --
> Chuntao Li
> Chinese Academy of Finance and Development
> Central University of Finance and Economics
> Beijing, China
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Chuntao Li
Chinese Academy of Finance and Development
Central University of Finance and Economics
Beijing, China
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