RE: st: table formatting in stata

[Haluk Vahaboglu <vahabo@hotmail.com>]

Dear Sergiy,
Thank you again. Now ttestab.ado is near perfect, though the help file needs some additional work.
As we all know, everyday thousands of new research paper appear in medical literature. Nearly half of these (not sure about the proportion) are clinical studies and I guess even more than half present data in a table giving Odss ratio or Rel Risk for dichotomous variables and Ttest and 95% CIs for continuous data. I am trying to say that, if somebody expects stata to be more popular among clinical research community, he must implement commands to facilitate getting such tables from the software.
In my practice, I used to use 'cctable' and 'cstable' to obtain a formatted OR | RR table of multiple variables.
Now, I am able to get a formatted ttest table of multiple variables via 'ttesttab' command.
Hence, according to me it would be nice to include 'ttesttab' in SSC.

Unfortunately, I have no answer to the second question.

Best


Prof. Dr. Haluk Vahaboğlu
Istanbul Medeniyet Üniversitesi,
Göztepe Eğitim ve Araştırma Hastanesi
Enfeksiyon Hastalıkları ve Klinik Mikrobiyoloji ABD
Dr. Erkin Caddesi 34730
Kadıköy / Istanbul TURKIYE




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> Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2013 20:02:10 -0400
> Subject: Re: st: table formatting in stata
> From: serjradyakin@gmail.com
> To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
>
> Dear David, Haluk,
>
> I have just augmented -ttesttab.ado- to show confidence interval for
> difference of the means. Default is 95% level, use option /level(#)/
> to specify level the same way standard -ttest- expects it. Use option
> /unequal/ if appropriate.
>
> Question #1: Is anybody else interested in this? Do commands like
> these deserve to be posted to SSC?
>
> Question #2: Does anybody know how to merge the columns titles in the
> output of the 'undocumented' undocumented command _matrix_table?
>
> Best, Sergiy
>
> On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 5:30 PM, Haluk Vahaboglu <vahabo@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> 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
>> Enfeksiyon Hastalıkları
>> ve Klinik Mikrobiyoloji ABD
>> Dr. Erkin Caddesi 34730
>> Kadıköy / Istanbul TURKIYE
>>
>>
>>
>>> 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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