Re: Re: st: Tabulate summary statistics by percentiles and save output

[annoporci <annoporci@gmail.com>]

Nick wrote:
> One problem here is where you think Stata is looking for saved results  
> such as r(p1). Either non-missing values are accessible because they  
> were left behind by some _previous_ command; or Stata will use missing  
> values, which in your case will result in lack of restriction on the  
> observations used. It's not an error to refer to saved results that  
> don't exist.


I get it!

So either I need to add summarize,detail before every new computation  
dependent upon r(pi) (i=1,2,...) or I need to save these values. I'm  
guessing the latter is more efficient, so I'll probably do that  
eventually. In the meantime, I confirm that the following seems to produce  
the correct results:

foreach var of varlist `variables' {
   quietly summarize `var', detail
   quietly estpost summarize `var' if inrange(`var',`=r(p1)',`=r(p10)'),  
detail
   esttab using moments`var'.tex, replace cells("count mean sd skewness  
kurtosis") noobs nodis nonumbers nonotes
   quietly summarize `var', detail
   quietly estpost summarize `var' if inrange(`var',`=r(p90)',`=r(p100)'),  
detail
   esttab using moments`var'.tex, append cells("count mean sd skewness  
kurtosis") noobs nodis nonumbers nonotes
 }

Thanks Nick.


Nick wrote:
> You refer here to several user-written commands but in no case do you  
> explain where they come from.


Well, I googled "stata export table latex" and quickly gathered a few of  
them. I'm not sure which one is the most appropriate for my problem, can  
you recommend one?

Thanks,

--
Patrick Toche.
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