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Re: st: Summarizing variables


From   Nick Cox <[email protected]>
To   "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject   Re: st: Summarizing variables
Date   Wed, 7 Aug 2013 18:20:56 +0100

This sounds like

tab practice_code, su(practwt)

or perhaps what -groups- (SSC) can do.

Nick
[email protected]


On 7 August 2013 18:13, Lisa Cook <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to output values for two variables using Stata/IC 11.2 for Windows.
>
> My dataset includes about 50,000 patients grouped in about 50 primary
> care practices. I've created some practice-level variables like
> weights and practice-level means, but I'm having trouble getting Stata
> to output what I want. My immediate goal is to get Stata to list the
> practice IDs and practice weights in a table like this:
>
> practice_code      practwt
> 120                      .034
> 130                      .045
> etc.
>
> I can get Stata to give me the practice weights if I tell it:
>
> by practice_code, sort: ta practwt
>
> But the output is ugly and impossible to copy into Excel:
>
> -> practice_code = 92
>
>     practwt |      Freq.     Percent        Cum.
> ------------+-----------------------------------
>    .0068969 |        367      100.00      100.00
> ------------+-----------------------------------
>       Total |        367      100.00
>
> I've downloaded the program "vallist", hoping it would do what I
> needed, but it doesn't. Any other user-written programs out there? Or
> is there an option in a built-in program that I should be using?
>
> Thanks,
> Lisa
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