Michael Oakes
> >
> > Tabstat is useful module, permitting one to select statistics to be
> > displayed. For example:
> >
> > . tabstat q7a q7b q7c, stats(n mean median) column(s)
> >
> > variable | N mean p50
> > -------------+------------------------------
> > q7a | 254 6.185039 7
> > q7b | 255 5.011765 5
> > q7c | 254 5.61811 6
> > --------------------------------------------
> >
> > I like means to be displayed to only 2 decimal places. I can format my
> > variables and ask for formatted output, such as
> >
> > . format q7a - q7c %9.2f
> >
> > . tabstat q7a q7b q7c , stats(n mean median) column(s) f
> >
> > variable | N mean p50
> > -------------+------------------------------
> > q7a | 254.00 6.19 7.00
> > q7b | 255.00 5.01 5.00
> > q7c | 254.00 5.62 6.00
> > --------------------------------------------
> >
> > But then all the table elements are formatted 9.2f!
> >
> > Is there an easy way to just get means (or any given) column formatted
> > uniquely?
myself
> The short answer, I believe, is No, not within -tabstat-.
>
> I had the same issue recently and issued two
> -tabstat- commands, one with the format I
> wanted for means (and in my case SDs as well)
> and one with default format. I then joined the
> tables in my favourite text editor. Not ideal,
> but seemingly the best that could be done,
> apart from writing my own program, which seemed
> more work for my problem.
>
> Not your problem, but somewhere in cyberspace is a suggestion I made
> that N in -tabstat- should always, or at least
> by default, be shown as an integer with no decimal places
> whenever it was in fact an integer. But even that might not
> be what was always wanted.
On the other hand, the core of a program is only
a few lines long:
foreach v of var q7a q7b q7c {
qui su `v' , detail
di "`v'" "{col 18}" r(N) "{col 24}" %9.1f r(mean) "{col 34}" %9.0f
r(p50)
}
Nick
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