st: Trouble producing population standard deviations with collapse (sd)

[Matt Vivier <mvivier@remedypartners.net>]

Hello all,

My specs are:
Stata/IC 12.1 for Windows (64-bit x86-64)
Revision 06 Feb 2012

I am having some trouble getting collapse to produce the result I am
looking for. I have done some searching, and have not found anyone
else presenting this problem. I need it to generate the population
standard deviation for a large number of subsets of data, but it
appears the command I am using is generating a sample standard
deviation. Each subset of the data represents 100% of the population I
am interested in the SD for. Is there a simple way to do this, or will
I need to compute the SD using another process?

My code is as follows:

collapse (sum) TotCost TotAcute TotPostAcute ReadmissionCost
ReadmissionClaims count (sd) SDTotCost=TotCost
SDTotPostAcute=TotPostAcute SDReadmissionCost=ReadmissionCost (mean)
AvgTotCost=TotCost AvgTotPostAcute=TotPostAcute
AvgReadmissionCost=ReadmissionCost, by(drg_condition TriggerProvider
year)

Thank you for your help,
Matt

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