Re: st: RE: compact output for series of one-way tabulations

[Richard Goldstein <richgold@ix.netcom.com>]

-tabm- is exactly what I was looking for (embarassed to have missed it)

Thanks

Rich

Nick Cox wrote:

> One possibility is -tabm-, which is 
> part of the -tab_chi- package on SSC. 
> To do this from first principles
> one strategy is a temporary -stack- 
> or -reshape-. 
> Nick 
> n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk 
> Richard Goldstein
>  
>
> > I have a set of 32 variables, each can have any of the 
> > categorical values. 
> > What I want is an output that (excluding the header) is 32 
> > rows by 5 columns, 
> > where the first column is the variable name and columns 2-4 
> > are the three 
> > categories (frequency or count) and the last column is the 
> > total number having 
> > one of the three categories.
> >
> > I admit that I cannot see even how to start coding this so 
> > I'm hoping that 
> > either someone already has coded it (though I couldn't find 
> > anything) or that 
> > someone has a hint or two they could share.
>
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