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Re: st: alternative calculation method due to "too many values" / tabulate
From
Steve Nakoneshny <[email protected]>
To
"[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject
Re: st: alternative calculation method due to "too many values" / tabulate
Date
Fri, 2 Mar 2012 07:27:17 -0700
Martin,
I approach problems such as this with a judicious use of -preserve- and -restore-. By using -preserve- before you use -collapse-, you retain the flexibility to "undo" any changes / transformations you make via -restore-.
Steve
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On Mar 2, 2012, at 7:06 AM, "Martin" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear stata cumunity,
>
> I would like to calculate the values which I have in my table in this form:
>
> FSHNETCSP3 luse_csp count
> 0 10 500
> 0 1010 124
> 1 10 500
> 2 1010 240
> 2 10 120
> 3 1010 130
> 3 10 120
> 4 10 101
> …...
>
> To receive the following result:
>
> | luse_csp
> FSHNETCSP3 | 0 1 2 3 4
> 5 10 1000 | Total
> -----------+----------------------------------------------------------------
> ------------------------+----------
> 0 | 0 9 0 0 5
> 0 327 3 | 344
> 1 | 0 0 0 0 0
> 0 315 0 | 315
> 2 | 0 5 0 0 0
> 0 321 5 | 331
> 3 | 0 0 0 0 0
> 0 439 1 | 440
> 4 | 0 0 0 0 0
> 0 412 8 | 420
> 5 | 1 2 3 0 0
> 0 440 0 | 446
> 6 | 0 0 0 0 0
> 0 413 7 | 420
> ….....
>
> I used the following command:
> . tabulate FSHNETCSP3 luse_csp [fweight = count] in 1/1000
>
> However, because I have 220.000 different FSHNETCSP3 values I get the error
> “too many values”. I tried the “bigtab” command from the list, but there I
> can`t add a weight. I don`t want to use collapse because I need the exact
> values for further calculations.
>
> Can someone help? This is my first post so just say if the form of this mail
> isn´t good. I am a beginner.
>
>
> Thank you very much and best regards,
> Martin
>
>
>
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