st: RE: mean2 not allowing if or weight options

[Nick Cox <n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk>]

Part of this is easy: Look inside at the code, and you will see that the -syntax- statement of -mean2- is 

syntax varlist(min=2) using/, over(str asis) CATegory(str asis) /*
	*/ [svy * vce(str asis) CLuster(str asis)] replace

which rules out -if- or -in- restrictions and the use of weights. 

Evidently Roy intended to implement these features but has yet not done so, at least in the public version on SSC. If you want these features implemented properly, you should write to him, as he is not a member of Statalist. 

If you wish to run -mean2- on a subset of the data, you can do this

preserve
keep [if] [in] 
mean2
restore

Nick 
n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk 

Ariel Linden, DrPH

After seeing a posting last week on this listserve about mean2 (a program
written by Roy Wada -findit mean2-) I tried it out and found it to be quite
useful. That said, it does not appear to allow either 'if' statements or
weights. The help file states the program accommodates both if and weight
options.

I made sure all the other programs it relies on are up-to-date so that does
not appear to be the issue. Also, I am using version 12.0. 

This works:

mean2  price  mpg  weight using myfile.txt, over(foreign) cat(Domestic
Foreign) excel replace
(output not shown)

This doesn't work:

mean2  price  mpg  weight using myfile.txt if rep78 >3, over(foreign)
cat(Domestic Foreign) excel replace
if not allowed

This doesn't work:

mean2  price  mpg  weight using myfile.txt [pw=length], over(foreign)
cat(Domestic Foreign) excel replace
weights not allowed

Any help would be appreciated!

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