Re: st: weight in tab1

[David Kantor <kantor.d@att.net>]

Hi,
Thanks for confirming what I suspected.
It looks like tab2 has the same unnecessary limitation.
Thanks also to Peter Lachenbruch for the additional info.

I may take this up with Statcorp.

--David

At 05:57 PM 12/19/2012, you wrote:
> I can see no logical reason at all. -tab1- is just a wrapper for
> multiple calls to -tab-, as you know. It should support the same
> weights.
>
> You can check the situation in 12 for yourself by looking at
>
> http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?tab1
>
> and it is the same.
>
> I doubt that any update will benefit 10.1, so you will need to clone
> -tab1- and do it yourself!
>
> Nick
>
> On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 10:28 PM, David Kantor <kantor.d@att.net> wrote:
>
> > Does anyone know if there is a logical reason that -tab1- allows only
> > fweights, whereas -tabulate- allows almost all types of weights?
> >
> > I'm guessing that it's a relic from when -tabulate- had fewer weight
> > options.
> > Any other reason?
> >
> > I use Stata 10, but I believe that this holds in Stata 12.
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