Your main requirements seem to be customisation
of headings, separators, underlines, etc. The main
places to look are therefore help on -display-
and -smcl-. Sooner or later you will need to
know more about -format-.
Nick
[email protected]
David Winter
> As a new Stata user with the help of yourselves I have completed my
> survival analysis and now want to output the results in a specific
> format. I should be most grateful for comments. I have looked at
> -list- and -summarize- but neither seem to fit my exact requirements.
>
> Example: I have the following data, the variables are:
>
> Sex : Sex of patients
> Ageband : Age at treatment
> OBS: Observed neoplasms
> EXP: Expected neoplasms
> SMR: Standardized Mortality Ratio (OBS/EXP)
> PYears: Person-Time (Years) in analysis
>
> Sex AgeBand OBS EXP SMR PYears
> MALE 0-4 5 0.25 20 6.45
> MALE 5-9 1 0.3 3.33 1.4
> MALE 10-14 3 0.4 7.5 2.6
> FEMALE 0-4 2 0.25 8 3.25
> FEMALE 5-9 6 0.75 8 1.95
> FEMALE 10-14 1 0.1 10 8.25
>
> Ideally, I should like to display the data above with
> meaningful labels
> for the data-set and variables, a summary line for each sex
> and overall
> and line separators as appropriate for example:
>
>
> BRAIN TUMOUR ANALYSIS
> =====================
>
> Sex of Age at Trt Observed Expected SMR Person
> Survivor Neoplasms Neoplasms Years
> ======== ========== ========= ========= === ======
>
> MALE 0-4 5 0.25 20 6.45
> MALE 5-9 1 0.3 3.33 1.4
> MALE 10-14 3 0.4 7.5 2.6
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
> MALE (All age) 9 0.95 9.473 10.45
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
> FEMALE 0-4 2 0.25 8 3.25
> FEMALE 5-9 6 0.75 8 1.95
> FEMALE 10-14 1 0.1 10 8.25
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
> FEMALE(All age) 9 1.1 8.182 13.45
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
> OVERALL 18 2.05 8.78 23.9
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> The formatted data can be dumped to an ASCII text file.
>
> I'm sure this is possible. All suggestions gratefully received.
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