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Re: st: how to specify the decimals for output
From
Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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Re: st: how to specify the decimals for output
Date
Wed, 12 Oct 2011 17:59:48 +0100
Also
ssc inst groups
sysuse auto
groups foreign, format(%2.1f)
+------------------------------------+
| foreign Freq. Percent Cum. |
|------------------------------------|
| Domestic 52 70.3 70.3 |
| Foreign 22 29.7 100.0 |
+------------------------------------+
-fre- is spectacular for one-way tabulation.
-groups- can do n-way tables, but always collapsed to one dimension.
Nick .
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 4:55 PM, Austin Nichols <[email protected]> wrote:
> Lan Zhang <[email protected]> :
>
> ssc inst fre
> sysuse auto, clear
> fre rep78, f(1) nomiss
>
> On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 11:06 AM, Lan Zhang <[email protected]> wrote:
>> When use 'tab var' for frequencies of categorical variables, Stata
>> gives the percentages of two decimals. I wanna just one decimal. How
>> to change it? I didn't find any optional commands that has this
>> function. If I can't achieve this from the 'tab' command, how could I
>> do it using other command that may also give the percentages of the
>> categories.
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