Re: st: counting

[chris wallace <c.wallace@qmul.ac.uk>]

Quoting Amit Khandelwal <amit.khandelwal@yale.edu>:

> Suppose I have 5 states and I want to count the number of children in each 
> state. How can I do this without generating a new variable. If I do
> 
> by state: count if child==1
> 
> then r(N) only stores the last state's result.

If you just want a visual display?

tab state if child==1

C.
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