Re: Re: st: create a contingency table

[Jean-Benoit Hardouin <jean-benoit.hardouin@club-internet.fr>]

On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 23:40:52 -0000, Nick Cox <n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk> wrote:
OK Nick,
"contract" is exactly the command I searched.
I want to create a new dataset, not to display a table !! The confusion is 
due to the french language where "table (french)" means "dataset (english)" 
and "table (english)" is translated in "tableau (french)". Thank you.
Jean-Benoit


> _EITHER_ the same answer
>
> bysort Item? : gen Count = _N
> by Item? : gen tag = _n == 1
> list Item? Count if tag
>
> If you want just to keep the
> table as new dataset:
>
> keep if tag
> keep Item? Count
>
> _OR_
>
> contract Item?
>
> See [R] contract.
>
> I guess I would have suggested that earlier
> if I had sensed interest in dataset as result,
> rather than table as result.
>
> Nick
> n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk
>
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