RE: st: table formatting in stata

[Haluk Vahaboglu <vahabo@hotmail.com>]

Dear David,
Thank you for this valuable suggestion. I agree with you, confidence limits of diff is  more useful.
The problem is, I can not implement this option to the ttestab.ado. 




Prof. Dr. Haluk Vahaboğlu
Istanbul Medeniyet
Üniversitesi, 
Göztepe Eğitim ve Araştırma Hastanesi
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ve Klinik Mikrobiyoloji ABD
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> Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2013 07:54:49 -0400
> Subject: Re: st: table formatting in stata
> From: dchoaglin@gmail.com
> To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> 
> Dear Haluk,
> 
> I will not try to help with the programming, but I do have a
> suggestion for the content of the table: give the confidence interval
> for the difference between the two means.  That will be much more
> useful to readers than the p-value.  In current practice, after you
> have given the confidence interval, the p-value is optional.
> 
> David Hoaglin
> 
> On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 5:11 AM, Haluk Vahaboglu <vahabo@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> TD P { margin-bottom: 0in; }P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }
>>
>>
>> Hello Everybody,
>> In our research papers we
>> mostly present continuous data in a table with comparison to cases vs
>> controls as “n mean SD and p (from Ttest)”. Here is a brief
>> example of such a table:
>>
>>
>>
>> ................Cases   /  Controls
>>         ........N mean (SD)     N mean (SD)...p
>> Var1
>> Var2
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