You must first calculate the means and standard deviations
you want. I don't see that this email gives any clue
on how you to want to calculate them with respect to either
cohort or type, but -egen- may help. Once that is done,
this looks more like a -list- problem that a tabulation problem to me.
Nick
[email protected]
MA V
> I am trying to construct a table but I wonder if I have to change the
> arrangement of my dataset in order to get the desired table...
>
> This is a sample of the data:
> cohort; type; variable; true; estimated
> 1 A 1 0.5 0.55
> 1 B 1 0.7 0.76
> 1 A 2 0.2 0.23
> 1 B 2 0.1 0.11
> 2 A 1 0.5 0.52
> 2 B 1 0.7 0.74
> 2 A 2 0.2 0.26
> 2 B 2 0.1 0.13
>
> (cohort, type and variable are all categorical variables)
>
> I am trying to construct a table with the following configuration:
> rows (2 rows): type (A,B) [in the complete dataset I have 15 cohorts:
> A,B,C,D,...]
> columns (6 columns): True_variable1, True_variable2,
> Estimated_variable1(mean), Estimated_variable2(sd),
> Estimated_variable2(mean), Estimated_variable2(sd)
>
> I tried using tabstat and tablemat but none of these options seems to
> provide what I need.
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