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Re: st: tabulating with weights
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Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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Re: st: tabulating with weights
Date
Mon, 26 Sep 2011 15:22:42 +0100
"Only one comma is legal": Not correct. You can have more than one
comma. I agree, as just posted, that "at most one comma" is a good
style rule, but that is a different question and a matter of
judgement.
. sysuse auto, clear
(1978 Automobile Data)
. su mpg , detail, if foreign
Mileage (mpg)
-------------------------------------------------------------
Percentiles Smallest
1% 14 14
5% 17 17
10% 17 17 Obs 22
25% 21 18 Sum of Wgt. 22
50% 24.5 Mean 24.77273
Largest Std. Dev. 6.611187
75% 28 31
90% 35 35 Variance 43.70779
95% 35 35 Skewness .657329
99% 41 41 Kurtosis 3.10734
On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 3:19 PM, Alberto R Osella
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I don't know all the command but the if option must be place before the
> comma and only one comma is legal.
>
> Alberto R. Osella, MD, PhD
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>
>
> Il 26/09/2011 16:01, Abu Camara ha scritto:
>>
>> Dear Statalist,
>>
>> I am running the following command:
>>
>> table country year, c(mean inflation) format(%9.2f), [aweight=
>> gdp_ppp_wold], if year>2005
>>
>> but i keep getting the error :- "option if not allowed"
>>
>> what is wrong? Any help would be appreciated.
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