Re: st: How to sort other variables by numeric variable

[Maarten Buis <maartenlbuis@gmail.com>]

It is convention on the statalist to respond on list and not
privately. The reasons for that are discussed in the Statalist FAQ.
<http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/res/statalist.html#private>

-c(mean wage)- is an option of -table, so to see what it does you type
in Stata -help table-
The -bys:- prefix is discussed in -help by-.

Did you run the example I gave you? If you did you would have seen
what these things do... See:
<http://www.maartenbuis.nl/example_faq/index.html#work>

-- Maarten


On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 7:05 PM, Nikitha Murali <nmurali@uchicago.edu> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Thanks for your reply.
>
> I understand that the 'married' variable corresponds to my own sex variable.
> However, can you explain:
> - what the c(mean wage) does
> - what bys married: sum wage does
>
> Thank you.
>
>
> On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 11:23 AM, Maarten Buis <maartenlbuis@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 5:59 PM, Nikitha Murali wrote:
>>> I have a variable called sex that currently shows Male as 1  and
>>> Female as 0. I have a number of other unrelated variables such as GPA.
>>> I would like to get descriptive statistics of these variables for each
>>> sex (i.e. compare the mean GPA of males against the mean GPA of
>>> females.)
>>
>> There are a couple of ways of doing that:
>>
>> *--------- begin example ------------
>> sysuse nlsw88, clear
>>
>> table married, c(mean wage)
>> bys married: sum wage
>> reg wage ibn.married, nocons hascons
>> *---------- end example -------------
>> (For more on examples I sent to the Statalist see:
>> http://www.maartenbuis.nl/example_faq )
>>
>> The last option was discussed in a recent Stata tip:
>> M.L. Buis (2012) "Stata tip 106: With or without reference", The Stata
>> Journal, 12(1), pp. 162-164.
>>
>> Hope this helps,
>> Maarten
>>
>> --------------------------
>> Maarten L. Buis
>> Institut fuer Soziologie
>> Universitaet Tuebingen
>> Wilhelmstrasse 36
>> 72074 Tuebingen
>> Germany
>>
>>
>> http://www.maartenbuis.nl
>> --------------------------
>>
>> *
>> *   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/



-- 
--------------------------
Maarten L. Buis
Institut fuer Soziologie
Universitaet Tuebingen
Wilhelmstrasse 36
72074 Tuebingen
Germany


http://www.maartenbuis.nl
--------------------------

*
*   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/