Re: st: RE: Summarizing Kappa Output

[Donald Spady <dspady1@telus.net>]

Martin
 Thanks very much.  I didn't do that, but your reply stimulated an 
alternate, somewhat more laborious, but more  transparent to me approach.
The job is done.

Don

Martin Weiss wrote:
> <>
>
> Try this to get the results into .txt:
>
> *************
> webuse rate2, clear
>
> expand 3
> set seed 54968
> gen byte mygroups=irecode(runiform(),0,.5,.75,1)
>
> tempname hdle
> cap erase info.dta
>
> postfile `hdle' str10(var1 var2) int group /* 
> */ kappa prop_agree z using info.dta
>
> qui levelsof mygroups
>
> foreach gr in `r(levels)'{
> 	kap rada radb if mygroups==`gr'
> 	post `hdle' ("rada") ("radb") (`gr') /* 
> 	*/ (r(kappa)) (r(prop_o)) (r(z)) 
> }
>
> postclose `hdle'
>
> u info, clear
> l, noo
>
> outsheet using myfile.txt, replace
> !start myfile.txt
> *************
>
>
> HTH
> Martin
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> [mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of Donald Spady
> Sent: Samstag, 26. Juni 2010 06:12
> To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> Subject: st: Summarizing Kappa Output
>
> It has been a long time since I visited Statalist, but I need some help now.
>
> I have a project with a 'bazillion' kappas and I want to summarize them
> Here is my command:
> kap var1 var2 if var3 == 'n'
>
> where 'n' can take many values and there are various combinations of 
> var1 and var 2
>
> What I want to be able to do is get output (using the 'return' function 
> I think) so that it looks something like this:
> Var1 var2 var3value (e.g. 1) kappa  %Agreement  Z
> Var1 var2 var3value (e.g. 2) kappa  %Agreement  Z
> Var1 var2 var3value (e.g. 3) kappa  %Agreement  Z
>
> This should allow me to export it to a spreadsheet or a table.
> I imagine it could be done by returning the values to a matrix somehow, 
> but I have no experience in this at all
> Can I do this? If so, How?
>
> Many thanks.
> Don
>
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