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From | Christian Raschke <crasch2@tigers.lsu.edu> |
To | statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu |
Subject | st: tabulate produces inconsistent output? |
Date | Sat, 19 Nov 2011 13:42:40 -0600 |
Hello Stata-listers,I am running into the following very odd problem: I have a factor variable that I would like to tabulate, but every time I use tab, I get different results. When running tab back to back on the same variable in the same data set I get entirely different results every time.
All the years that I have used Stata, I've never had anything like this happen, so I am totally stumped. There are only 2 variables in my data set: a variable "ID" that is storage type double and the variable "pldel" that is storage type byte.
Please see what I copied and pasted at the end of this email straight from my interactive session. The same oddity occurs if I use the .tab pldel, gen() syntax; in the same session I continue to get different results every time I run a simple tab, so the below are just two arbitrary examples.
If I open a new clean session of Stata, then tab works as expected. I did not define any user defined programs or do anything anything else of that nature in the broken session. The only commands in my Command History are various versions of <use>, <tab>, <count>, <describe>, and <browse>.
So, what might have happened to break a basic command like <tab>? I know that using a new session fixes the immediate problem at hand, but I want to ensure that something like this does not happen in any of my data analyses in the future!
If it matters, I'm running Stata 12.0 SE 64-bit on a Windows 7 machine.I apologize if this has been discussed before, but a quick preliminary search turned up nothing. I would appreciate any help troubleshooting.
. tab pldel Place of | Delivery | Freq. Percent Cum. ------------+----------------------------------- 1 | 223,057 98.96 98.96 2 | 2,191 0.97 99.93 3 | 106 0.05 99.98 9 | 46 0.02 100.00 ------------+----------------------------------- Total | 225,400 100.00 r; t=0.08 13:15:07 . tab pldel Place of | Delivery | Freq. Percent Cum. ------------+----------------------------------- 1 | 62,726 99.41 99.41 2 | 351 0.56 99.96 9 | 23 0.04 100.00 ------------+----------------------------------- Total | 63,100 100.00 r; t=0.08 13:15:11 . count 3765064 r; t=0.02 13:15:14 Best regards, Christian Raschke PhD Candidate, Department of Economics Louisiana State University crasch2@lsu.edu * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search * http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/