RE: st: Crossed wires? Table set wrong? (table command, rel 10)

["Allan Reese (Cefas)" <allan.reese@cefas.co.uk>]

No one (incl Tech support) has picked up on this.  Maybe my description
is too cryptic.  The point is that "tabulate , col" adds column
statistics (as a row) but "table , col" adds row statistics (as a
column).  That seems perverse.

. use auto
(1978 Automobile Data)

. tab foreign rep78, col

+-------------------+
| Key               |
|-------------------|
|     frequency     |
| column percentage |
+-------------------+

           |                   Repair Record 1978
  Car type |         1          2          3          4          5 |
Total
-----------+-------------------------------------------------------+----
------
  Domestic |         2          8         27          9          2 |
48 
           |    100.00     100.00      90.00      50.00      18.18 |
69.57 
-----------+-------------------------------------------------------+----
------
   Foreign |         0          0          3          9          9 |
21 
           |      0.00       0.00      10.00      50.00      81.82 |
30.43 
-----------+-------------------------------------------------------+----
------
     Total |         2          8         30         18         11 |
69 
           |    100.00     100.00     100.00     100.00     100.00 |
100.00 


. table foreign rep78, col

----------------------------------------------------
          |            Repair Record 1978           
 Car type |     1      2      3      4      5  Total
----------+-----------------------------------------
 Domestic |     2      8     27      9      2     48
  Foreign |                   3      9      9     21
----------------------------------------------------
                                                  ^^ ROW totals added.

Allan 


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