If soap usage is a single variable, won't Stata interpret it as two variables "soap" and "usage"? Maybe consider soap_usage as a variable name
Tony
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From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Alan Neustadtl
Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2009 5:22 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: st: question about tabstat and table
See -help table- fo rmore informaiton. The example below might help as well:
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sysuse auto, clear
table rep78 foreign, c(mean mpg)
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Best,
Alan
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 8:13 AM, Victor M. Enciso M.
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I have three vars: soap usage, language and study
> language and study can only take two values.
>
> If I want to get the mean of soap usage by language or study I can use
> tabstat
>
> tabstat soap usage, by(study)
>
> or if I want a two way table of study and language:
>
> table study language
>
> What I want, and don't know how to get is a two way table of study and
> language but instead of having the counts as result I want the mean of soap
> usage.
>
> Obviously, stata doesn't accept
>
> tabstat soap usage, by(study language)
>
> So, any suggestions?
>
> thank you.
>
>
>
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