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Re: st: RE: tabstatmat: are there difference between lab version vs non-lab versions? or a bug?


From   "User Stata" <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: RE: tabstatmat: are there difference between lab version vs non-lab versions? or a bug?
Date   Tue, 25 Nov 2008 17:43:42 +0800

thanks for your sugggestions

let me write a program to fix it

Chuntao

On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 4:32 PM, Martin Weiss <[email protected]> wrote:
> Line for the server...
>
>
>
> Well, the -h tabstatmat- advises you: "In particular, a call that requests
> multiple statistics for multiple groups and multiple variables is not
> suitable. tabstatmat cannot be smart about detecting such calls and
> labelling rows or columns correctly."
>
>
> HTH
> Martin
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of User Stata
> Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2008 7:32 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: st: tabstatmat: are there difference between lab version vs non-lab
> versions? or a bug?
>
> Dear Users,
>
>   my students is using Stata 10.0 but find that tabstatmat cannot
> work here properly
>
>   please try the following program to test it
>
> *program 1:
>
> clear
> set obs 100
>
> forval i = 1(1) 2 {
>  gen x`i' = uniform()
>      }
> gen y = uniform()>0.3
> tabstat x1-x2, by(y) s(N mean sd ) c(s) long save
> tabstatmat a
>
> the output is as following:
>
> . tabstatmat a
>
> a[6,3]
>               N       mean         sd
>    0         24  .52799754  .31000402
>    1         24  .56384267  .27788796
> Total         76  .48501671  .30646846
> Total         76  .51454554  .30574073
> Total        100  .49533211  .30630202
> Total        100  .52637685  .29867098
>
>
> the program here is that the last four rows are all lebeled as Total
>
> with the following program, you will find more serious problems:
>
>
>
>
>  clear
> set obs 100
>
> forval i = 1(1) 4 {
>  gen x`i' = uniform()
>      }
> gen y = uniform()>0.3
> tabstat x1-x4, by(y) s(N mean sd ) c(s) long save
> tabstatmat a
>
>
> clear
> set obs 100
>
> forval i = 1(1) 4 {
>  gen x`i' = uniform()
>      }
> gen y = uniform()>0.3
> tabstat x1-x4, by(y) s(N mean sd ) c(s) long save
> tabstatmat a
>
>
> . tabstatmat a
> conformability error
> r(503);
>
> end of do-file
>
> r(503);
>
>
> actually i find that when there are more than 4 variables, this error
> will always appear
>
>
> in another of my program, i even find another error message:
>
>
> . tabstat emp RD2 RND_D np2 np_d new_process if SOE & year==2002,
> by(sector) save
>
> Summary statistics: mean
>  by categories of: sector
>
>          sector |  employee       RD2     RND_D       np2      np_d
> new_pr~s
> -----------------+----------------------------------------------------------
> --
> Garment & leathe |  4.715734  .0016361  .1397849  .0487634  .1182796
> .2043011
> Electronic equip |   5.12713  .0170868  .5517241  .1807552  .4655172
> .6034483
> Electronic parts |    5.0808  .0145687  .4363636  .1641173        .5
> .4818182
> Auto & auto part |  5.595137  .0107206  .4388489  .1765173  .5035971
> .4460432
>  Food processing |  5.108645  .0016465        .3   .124515        .4
> .4
> Chemical product |  5.082825  .0024898  .2258065  .0319387  .2580645
> .2580645
> Metallurgical pr |  4.911888  .0179259  .2597403  .0970013  .2987013
> .2727273
> Transportation e |   3.84033  .0000513  .0833333     .0125  .0833333
> .0833333
> -----------------+----------------------------------------------------------
> --
>           Total |  5.104794  .0106054  .3481481  .1272354  .3759259
> .3833333
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> --
>
> . tabstatmat SEO_sectors
> Metallurgicalproducts(manuf:  operator invalid
> r(198);
>
> end of do-file
>
> r(198);
>
>
> --
> Chuntao Li
> Chinese Academy of Finance and Development
> Central University of Finance and Economics
> Beijing, China
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Chuntao Li
Chinese Academy of Finance and Development
Central University of Finance and Economics
Beijing, China
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