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FAQ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Saving frequencies produced by tabulate
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3/97 Is there any direct way to save into a new variable the
frequencies obtained by applying the command tabulate?
http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/data/tabfreq.html
In general, there is no more reason to expect R syntax to work in
Stata than there is to expect Stata syntax to work in R.
Nick
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bunny ,
> i am really new to stata and work with R for a little while, so i
> guess my problem is rather basic and rather a syntax problem.
> i have a dataset with household numbers of kids and i want to get a
> new "number of siblings" variable.
> that means i�d like to store the frequency of household number just
> right next to the household number itself.
>
> my approach is to use tabulate householdnumber... which prints a
> table of frequency and percentages.
>
> Can I do it like that ? And how can I store this frequency as a
> variable ? such that i can see it in the data editor as a column ?
>
> in R something like A = tabulate householdnumber would have worked.
> but in STATA it does not.
> Somehow I used the wrong search phrases so far there must exist
> something like it.
>
> i have the same problem storing correlation matrices.
> mycorrmat = cor
> a b c d aint working neither.
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