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Re: st: bottom to top or reverse cumulative distribution in table command?


From   Maarten buis <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: bottom to top or reverse cumulative distribution in table command?
Date   Wed, 20 Jan 2010 01:49:09 -0800 (PST)

--- Stefan Gawrich wrote:
> Is there any univariate table command available that displays a 
> bottom to top or reverse cumulative distribution? One example: 
> I have data on the number of vaccine doses given (0..9) and want 
> to know the percentage of cases having at least 4 or 3 or 2 doses. 

I don't know of such a program, but it is easy enough to create it.
Below is such a program -reversecum-. It gives for each value the
percentage of observations that have that value or more (excluding
missing values), it allows for -fweights- and -if- and -in- 
conditioning. 

This program will be normally available on your computer like any 
other Stata command, if you copy the line starting with 
"*! version..." and ending with "end" (inclusive) into a file 
and call it reversecum.ado and save it in your personal ado folder 
(type in Stata -adopath- to find out where that is). 

Alternatively, you can put these lines at the top of your do-file, 
and this program will than be available while running that do-file, 
like in the example below.

*-------------- begin example -----------------
program drop _all
*! version 1.0.0 MLB 20Jan2010
program reversecum
	syntax varname [if] [in] [fweight]
	marksample touse
	tempvar _freq cum r_cum
	if "`weight'" != "" {
		local wgt "[`weight'`exp']"
	}
	preserve
	contract `varlist' if `touse' `wgt', ///
	         freq(`_freq') cpercent(`cum') nomiss
	qui gen double `r_cum' = 100 - `cum'[_n-1]
	qui replace `r_cum' = 100 in 1
	format `r_cum' %8.2f
	label var `r_cum' "reverse Cum"
	tabdisp `varlist', cell(`_freq' `r_cum')
	restore
end

sysuse auto, clear
reversecum rep78
*-------------------- end example -----------------------
( For more on how to use examples I sent to statalist see:
 http://www.maartenbuis.nl/stata/exampleFAQ.html )

Hope this helps,
Maarten

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Maarten L. Buis
Institut fuer Soziologie
Universitaet Tuebingen
Wilhelmstrasse 36
72074 Tuebingen
Germany

http://www.maartenbuis.nl
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