I over looked Richard Williams' <[email protected]> reply.
Sorry about that,
Scott
----- Original Message -----
From: Richard Williams <[email protected]>
Date: Monday, April 3, 2006 11:53 pm
Subject: Re: st: table error
To: [email protected], [email protected]
> At 11:34 PM 4/3/2006, Michael Hout wrote:
> >Dear Statalisters:
> >
> >Running table with pweight gives a mysterious error message:
> >
> >.table foreign [pw=weight], c(mean price sd price n price)
> >variable __000003 not found
> >r(111);
> >
> >-Mike Hout
> >Sociology, Berkeley
> >PS
> >.table foreign [pw=weight], c(mean price sd price n price)
> >runs fine.
>
> OK, I give up. What is the difference between the line that gives
> the error and the line that runs fine??? They look the same to me.
>
> If you use aweights instead of pweights, it will run.
>
> In the help for -table- it says
>
> "sd (standard deviation) is not allowed with pweights."
>
> So, it is just not giving you the right error message, i.e. it
> should
> have whined earlier than it did and explicitly said pw can't be
> used with sd.
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