You want
several variables * 2 statistics * several categories
How is that going to fit into one big matrix?
Nick
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Camelia Minoiu
> I would like to obtain summary statistics (by another
> variable) for a list
> of 100 variables, and then save all of these in one big matrix, and
> preferably have this exported into a text file.
>
> I have been following the discussion surrounding
> -tabstatmat-as well as that
> regarding the command - mat2txt- (Feb 2004) but running
> mat2txt on my
> computer gives me the error message: "version 8.2 not
> supported" (I use
> Stata 8) and with tabstatmat I don't know if I can do this
> repeatedly. For
> example, writing a tiny program such as the one below does
> not seem to work:
>
> foreach X of varist v1-v100 {
> quietly tabstat `X', statistics(mean, sd) by(category_`X') save
> tabstatmat mat`X'
> svmat mat`X'
> keep mat`X'*
> dropmiss, obs
> outsheet using c:\data\matrix.txt
> }
>
> Do you happen to know what I can do so that all the results from each
> tabstat on each variable are appended together in one big matrix?
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