Re: st: RE: Re: ST: correlations and values

[Fred Wolfe <fwolfe@arthritis-research.org>]

At 04:24 PM 1/20/2003 +0000, you wrote:
> Eric Uslaner
> >
> > I sent this to STATALIST yesterday and I did not see it in today's
> > digest.
> > Any idea as to what went wrong?
>
> No, sorry.

I had the same thing happen so I'll soon try a repost.

Nick is right. The problem is where to find room for the variable names 
across the top. Or perhaps I should say to find a general solution as to 
how long the labels should be vs. how many variables you want across the 
top, and how wide is your screen (linesize).

That raises another question, "what is a label?"  The var label that one 
uses to identify a variable is not necessarily the same label you would 
want in graph or a table. I tried to address that in my program -fsum-. It 
uses -tlabels- or labels that I found useful for tables in hide in a 
variables  char[tlabel]. I found it very useful. I can go from Stata to 
publication quality tables quickly. But I'm sure it hasn't caught on. But 
it wouldn't be a bad idea for Stata to support several sets of label. 
Coming back to pwcorrs, one might want to make special labels for variables 
across the top that were more expressive, but still not too long. In the 
version 8 tabulate, the labels across the top are 9 characters long.  In 
fact they truncate my labels, so that I would have to retype them in a 
manuscript table.

So at this moment it would seem that the thing to do is for me to fix up 
pwcorrs for expanded var width with an option to substitute (truncated) 
labels. Other suggestions are welcome.











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