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RE: st: AW: summary table after tab1
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"Nick Cox" <[email protected]>
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<[email protected]>
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RE: st: AW: summary table after tab1
Date
Mon, 28 Jun 2010 19:24:34 +0100
This question also came up just a few weeks ago. See e.g.
http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2010-06/msg00027.html
-tabm- from -tab_chi- on SSC is aimed directly at this problem. No need to code it yourself.
Nick
[email protected]
Andrzej Niemierko
That's exactly what I needed: -stack- while -preserve-ing.
Thank you, Martin.
On 6/27/10 4:05 PM, "Martin Weiss" <[email protected]> wrote:
> -stack- the vars while -preserve-ing:
>
> ***********
> clear*
>
> input byte var1 var2 var3
> 1 4 2
> 3 1 6
> 6 1 5
> 2 3 4
> 6 4 5
> end
>
> preserve
> stack var?, into(myvar) clear
> ta myvar
> restore
>
> ***********
>
>
> HTH
> Martin
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Andrzej Niemierko
> Sent: Sonntag, 27. Juni 2010 21:45
> To: Stata
> Subject: Re: st: AW: summary table after tab1
>
> Thank you Martin and Don. Unfortunately, that's not what I need.
> Let's say I have three variables var1-var3 and they contain integer numbers
> between 1 and 6, e.g.:
>
> var1 var2 var3
> 1 4 2
> 3 1 6
> 6 1 5
> 2 3 4
> 6 4 5
>
> -tab1 var*- gives me three tables of frequencies for each variable
> separately. I need just one table that tells me the overall number of 1's,
> 2's, 3's etc.
> Andrzej
>
>
>
>
> On 6/27/10 1:13 PM, "Martin Weiss" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>
>> <>
>>
>> You may want to use -egen, group()- beforehand:
>>
>>
>> *************
>> sysuse auto, clear
>> tab1 turn trunk, sort
>> egen mygroups=group(turn trunk), label
>> ta mygroups
>> *************
>>
>>
>>
>> HTH
>> Martin
>>
>>
>> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
>> Von: [email protected]
>> [mailto:[email protected]] Im Auftrag von Andrzej
>> Niemierko
>> Gesendet: Sonntag, 27. Juni 2010 18:13
>> An: Stata
>> Betreff: st: summary table after tab1
>>
>> What's the simples way to generate a one-way summary table of frequencies
>> over several variables. -tab1 varlist, sort- generates individual tables
> but
>> I need a single table with frequencies summed over varlist.
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