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Re: st: summary statistics


From   Nick Cox <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: summary statistics
Date   Mon, 1 Oct 2012 01:43:24 +0100

This has often been asked on Statalist, except as usual finding the
posts is easier with the right keywords.

e.g.
http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2012-01/msg00669.html
http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2011-02/msg00445.html
etc. etc.

See -tabm- from -tab_chi- (SSC)

Also

SJ-5-1  st0082  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tabulation of multiple responses
        (help _mrsvmat, mrgraph, mrtab if installed)  . . . . . . . .  B. Jann
        Q1/05   SJ 5(1):92--122
        introduces new commands for the computation of one- and
        two-way tables of multiple responses

Nick

On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 11:46 PM, Donald Spady <[email protected]> wrote:

> I need some help creating summary statistics.
> I have 18 variables HSS1- HSS18, all containing a maximum of 5 discrete responses (1 to 5)
> Is there a command that would create a table that looks like the following
>                 Col 1   Col2    Col 3   Col 4   Col5
> HSS1        n1            n2            n3             n4           n5
> HSS2        n1                   n2            n3             n4           n5
> HSS3
>  and so on
>
> Where n1 is the number of responses where the variable HSS(n) took the value 1 and n2 is the number of responses where the variable HSS(n) took the value 2, and so on for n3, n4, n5.
>
> I have looked in the manuals but have not come up with anything, nor have I seen this on Statalist.
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