Or, to put it less gnomically, Stata did change this
detail from Stata 8.2 to Stata 9. B. Water did declare
use of 8.2. I used 9.2 without checking back that 8.2
was similar.
Nick
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Nick Cox
> As Kit points out, B. Water's failure to reproduce
> what I typed accounts for their failure to
> reproduce what I posted.
>
> In addition to this diversion, note that if the problem
> is picking up a sum for future use, then -tabstat- is
> a long way round.
>
> tempname foosum
> su foo, meanonly
> scalar `foosum' = r(sum)
>
> is more direct, with no hidden interpreted code,
> as in -tabstat-.
> Kit Baum
>
> > B.Water said
> >
> > matrices:
> > r(StatTot) : 1 x 2
> >
> > . mat total = r(StatTotal)
> >
> > Well, if the matrix in Stata 8.2 is named r(StatTot), then
> referring
> > to r(StatTotal) doesn't make much sense...
> > In Stata 9, tabstat returns r(StatTotal), which is probably
> why Nick
> > referred to that name.
>
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