Notice: On April 23, 2014, Statalist moved from an email list to a forum, based at statalist.org.
| From | Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com> |
| To | statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu |
| Subject | Re: st: tabstatmat question |
| Date | Thu, 1 Sep 2011 21:24:48 +0100 |
In addition, -collapse, by(zone wave)- would deliver the means directly. Nick On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 8:49 PM, Austin Nichols <austinnichols@gmail.com> wrote: > Sergio <sergioal@ufl.edu>: > Try (-tabstatmat- is on SSC): > > egen byv=group(zone wave), lab > tabstat num_typ3, stat(mean) by(byv) save > tabstatmat TABLE > > On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 3:30 PM, Alvarez,Sergio <sergioal@ufl.edu> wrote: >> Dear Statalisters, >> >> I'm trying to create a matrix of the grouped means of a variable (num_typ3). >> The observations in my dataset are grouped by location (zone) and time >> period (wave). >> >> Ideally the matrix would have the zones as the rows and the waves as the >> columns (or vice-versa), something like this: >> >> WAVE >> ZONE 1 2 ... >> 1 mean(1,1) mean(1,2) >> 2 mean(2,1) mean(2,2) >> ... >> >> I would use the matrix to generate a variable that takes the mean value >> depending on the zone and wave, using something like: >> >> gen meancatch = TABLE[zone,wave] >> >> I believe I need to go this route, rather than directly creating the >> variable, because I'm creating a set of 'fake' alternatives for each 'real' >> observation, corresponding to each location. Each observation corresponds >> to a fishing trip, so the alternatives are the possible fishing trips that >> didn't happen. I'll do that using -reshape-. >> >> Anyway, I thought -tabstatmat- would do the job, so I tried: >> >> by zone wave, sort: tabstat num_typ3, stat(mean) save >> >> Which gives me the elements of the ideal matrix one by one. Then I try: >> >> tabstatmat TABLE >> >> But this returns a 1x1 matrix: >> >> symmetric table[1,1] >> num_typ3 >> mean .94892632 >> >> So my question is, where did I mess up? Or did I just misunderstand what >> -tabstatmat- does? Is there a convenient way to do this? >> >> Thanks in advance, >> >> Sergio > > * > * For searches and help try: > * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search > * http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq > * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/ > * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search * http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/