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From | Christina Wei <christinaw1211@gmail.com> |
To | statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu |
Subject | Re: st: Count by group and tabulate |
Date | Thu, 5 Dec 2013 05:26:27 -0500 |
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: > <> > > 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: > >> 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: > >>> 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? > * > * For searches and help try: > * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search > * http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/resources/statalist-faq/ > * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/ * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search * http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/resources/statalist-faq/ * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/