st: Number of observations for marginal means r(_N)

[Ada Keding <ada.keding@york.ac.uk>]

Dear all,

I am having trouble extracting the number of observations on which
estimates for group means at different time points (visits) are based
in a mixed model.


My data is saved in long format, and the model looks something like this:

          xtmixed outcome i.arm i.visit i.arm##i.visit i.covariate ||
id:visit, cov(un) reml

I then extract marginal means with 'margins'

          margins arm##visit, atmeans

This gives means and confidence intervals for the outcome of each arm
at each visit, but not the number of associated observations. As far
as I gather, these are saved as r(_N).
When I call up the matrix for r(_N)...

          matrix list r(_N)

... it gives the same number of observations for each margin however,
which is a large value that bears no resemblance to the number of IDs
in the data set. How can I extract the particular number of IDs used
at each margin?

Any pointers are much appreciated.

Many thanks,

Ada


Ada Keding
University of York
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