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Re: st: How to sort other variables by numeric variable
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Nikitha Murali <[email protected]>
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Re: st: How to sort other variables by numeric variable
Date
Sun, 27 May 2012 13:27:34 -0500
This makes a lot of sense. Thank you for your help, Maarten!
Apologies for the breach of privacy, it will not happen again.
-Niki
On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 12:58 PM, Maarten Buis <[email protected]> wrote:
> It is convention on the statalist to respond on list and not
> privately. The reasons for that are discussed in the Statalist FAQ.
> <http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/res/statalist.html#private>
>
> -c(mean wage)- is an option of -table, so to see what it does you type
> in Stata -help table-
> The -bys:- prefix is discussed in -help by-.
>
> Did you run the example I gave you? If you did you would have seen
> what these things do... See:
> <http://www.maartenbuis.nl/example_faq/index.html#work>
>
> -- Maarten
>
>
> On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 7:05 PM, Nikitha Murali <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Thanks for your reply.
>>
>> I understand that the 'married' variable corresponds to my own sex variable.
>> However, can you explain:
>> - what the c(mean wage) does
>> - what bys married: sum wage does
>>
>> Thank you.
>>
>>
>> On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 11:23 AM, Maarten Buis <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 5:59 PM, Nikitha Murali wrote:
>>>> I have a variable called sex that currently shows Male as 1 and
>>>> Female as 0. I have a number of other unrelated variables such as GPA.
>>>> I would like to get descriptive statistics of these variables for each
>>>> sex (i.e. compare the mean GPA of males against the mean GPA of
>>>> females.)
>>>
>>> There are a couple of ways of doing that:
>>>
>>> *--------- begin example ------------
>>> sysuse nlsw88, clear
>>>
>>> table married, c(mean wage)
>>> bys married: sum wage
>>> reg wage ibn.married, nocons hascons
>>> *---------- end example -------------
>>> (For more on examples I sent to the Statalist see:
>>> http://www.maartenbuis.nl/example_faq )
>>>
>>> The last option was discussed in a recent Stata tip:
>>> M.L. Buis (2012) "Stata tip 106: With or without reference", The Stata
>>> Journal, 12(1), pp. 162-164.
>>>
>>> Hope this helps,
>>> Maarten
>>>
>>> --------------------------
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