Re: st: Count by group and tabulate

[Christina Wei <christinaw1211@gmail.com>]

Nick, I guess I questioned that because I was under the assumption
that he was interested in producing a Forest Plot for his manuscript.
Though I appreciate the beautiful graphs and figures and tables that
Stata can make.... I have never seen a table published in a peer
reviewed journal that was generated by Stata.  If there is one please
let me know.

If he was indeed looking to produce a forest plot table, then using
Stata to make forest plot table can get a bit tricky.  I was just
trying ascertain what type of table he was looking to create.

Not trying to start an internet message war.  I am just trying to help.

On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 4:40 AM, Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Azreen's personal circumstances and attitudes aside, reluctance to use
> Excel can easily be explained for many Stata users.
>
> 1. It may not be installed (especially common for Mac and Unix/Linux users).
>
> 2.  The dataset may not fit in Excel.
>
> 3. #1 and #2 don't bite but you prefer not to do that.
>
> 3.1 You prefer to work with one program where possible.
>
> 3.2 You have zero or minimal Excel skills, but prefer to use or extend
> your Stata expertise. (Many Stata users developed experience with
> Stata for several years before Excel even appeared.)
>
> 3.3 You distrust Excel as an environment for data management and analysis.
>
> I could go on, but the point is that this puzzle may be no puzzle at all.
>
> Nick
> njcoxstata@gmail.com
>
> On 5 December 2013 04:56, Christina Wei <christinaw1211@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Hi Azreen, I am not sure why you would want to create a table using
>> Stata (especially for a publication) when you could create one in
>> Excel (no pun intended Stata!).
>>
>> If I remember your post from earlier, you are doing meta-analysis,
>> correct?  If the table you are referring to is a forest plot table
>> then I'd be happy to help you with that.  You can actually create
>> forest plot in Excel too... in case if you are interested.
>
> On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 10:57 PM, Azreen Karim <azreenk@gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> I want to count number of observations by paper
>>> identification and then produce them in a table as in published
>>> article. Could you please let me know how to do this in Stata 12?
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