John GIBSON
>
> I am working on confidential unit record files and my
> output is not allowed to identify individual respondents.
> This prevents using the "Summarize" command when I want
> means and std deviations of my variables, because Max and
> Min are also included and these refer to individual respondents.
>
> While I can use Tabstat it is much less convenient because
> I have to specify the varlist (and using _all fails because
> there are string variables in the dataset).
>
> Does anyone have a version of the Summarize command that
> suppresses the Min and Max?
In addition to other answers:
-ds3- from SSC can filter out all string variables.
That is
. ds3 , num
. tabstat `r(varlist)' ...
takes all variable names, selects those
that are names of numeric variables and then sets
-tabstat- to work on those.
Nick
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