The error message for -xml_tab- suggests some issue with your write
access, which you don't detail.
I would expect that -tabstat- under the aegis of -by:- would save only
the last results it produced. So that is all that -tabstatmat- could
possibly see. Here is one test supporting that. Note that I don't get
the error message Shehzad reports.
. sysuse auto
(1978 Automobile Data)
. by foreign : tabstat mpg, save
------------------------------------------------------------------------
---------
-> foreign = Domestic
variable | mean
-------------+----------
mpg | 19.82692
------------------------
------------------------------------------------------------------------
-------
-> foreign = Foreign
variable | mean
-------------+----------
mpg | 24.77273
------------------------
. ret li
matrices:
r(StatTotal) : 1 x 1
. tabstatmat foo
symmetric foo[1,1]
mean
Total 24.772727
Nick
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Shehzad Ali
Thank you, Martin, Neil and Austin. All the suggestions were very
helpful.
Here are quick follow-up questions for Austin:
1. Following the -tabstatmat- code, -xml_tab A, save(a.xls) replace-
gives
me the following error:
-file can not be saved at this location-
Looking at the help file for xml_tab, it suggests closing Excel files
but I
don't have any open.
2. When I tried:
bysort week: tabstat A B C D E F G H I J, stat(mean sd median min max)
col(stat) save
tabstatmat a
I get the following error: - no tabstat results in memory-
Instead if I tried:
tabstat A B C D E F G H I J, stat(mean sd median min max) col(stat)
by(week) save
tabstatmat a
It worked. I don't why.
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