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RE: st: RE: rearrange table


From   Muhammad Akram <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   RE: st: RE: rearrange table
Date   Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:18:46 +0500

Hi all,

I want to know the procedure of how eigenvalue's companion matrix is generated in stata when using varstable command.

 

Thanks

aasim 


> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:24:56 +0000
> Subject: RE: st: RE: rearrange table
> 
> This is shorter than my original (quoted below) and the same length at 10 lines as my second solution. 
> 
> I am sure that Phil and I would both be pleased to see shorter solutions. 
> 
> The bitter-sweet principle is that there is a syntax to produce any table you want: it's just called Stata. 
> 
> Nick 
> [email protected] 
> 
> Phil Clayton
> 
> -statsby- is very nifty, but in this case you can of course get away with something a little simpler for constructing the results dataset:
> 
> sysuse auto, clear
> collapse (mean) mean=mpg (sd) sd=mpg (count) n=mpg, by(foreign)
> gen ub=mean + invttail((n-1), 0.025) * sd/sqrt(n)
> gen lb=mean - invttail((n-1), 0.025) * sd/sqrt(n)
> 
> Followed by Nick's:
> rename (sd mean lb ub) (statsd statmean statlb statub)
> reshape long stat, i(foreign) string
> label def which 1 mean 2 sd 3 lb 4 ub 
> encode _j , label(which) gen(which)
> label def which 3 "95% limit: lower" 4 "upper", modify
> tabdisp which foreign, c(stat) format(%3.2f)
> 
> On 10/02/2012, at 10:21 PM, Nick Cox wrote:
> 
> > sysuse auto, clear 
> > statsby mean=r(mean) ub=r(ub) lb=r(lb), by(foreign) : ci mpg
> > save bystat, replace 
> > sysuse auto, clear
> > statsby sd=r(sd), by(foreign) : su mpg
> > merge 1:1 foreign using bystat 
> > drop _merge
> > rename (sd mean lb ub) (statsd statmean statlb statub)
> > reshape long stat, i(foreign) string
> > label def which 1 mean 2 sd 3 lb 4 ub 
> > encode _j , label(which) gen(which)
> > label def which 3 "95% limit: lower" 4 "upper", modify
> > tabdisp which foreign, c(stat) format(%3.2f)
> 
> 
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