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Re: st: RE: Features for Stata 14


From   "Dimitriy V. Masterov" <[email protected]>
To   Statalist <[email protected]>
Subject   Re: st: RE: Features for Stata 14
Date   Thu, 13 Feb 2014 13:24:50 -0800

I would love to see more methods from the machine learning and data
mining worlds integrated. Stata is seriously lacking in this area,
though that is changing bit by bit.

DVM

On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 11:09 AM, Jeph Herrin <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'd like for tab, table, etc to be able to specify the width of the left
> margin - so that they can be aligned on the page. Eg,
>
> . sysuse auto
> . tab make in 2
>
>     Make and Model |      Freq.     Percent        Cum.
> -------------------+-----------------------------------
>          AMC Pacer |          1      100.00      100.00
> -------------------+-----------------------------------
>              Total |          1      100.00
>
>
> . tab foreign
>
>    Car type |      Freq.     Percent        Cum.
> ------------+-----------------------------------
>    Domestic |         52       70.27       70.27
>     Foreign |         22       29.73      100.00
> ------------+-----------------------------------
>       Total |         74      100.00
>
>
> This is very annoying when running lots of tabs on the same page - I often
> end up using my own version, just to get around this nusiance.
>
>
> J
>
>
>
>
> On 2/13/2014 1:31 PM, Nick Cox wrote:
>>
>> Thanks for the courtesy but the history of -tabnl- began and ended
>> with that post, at least as far as I am concerned, so you have missed
>> nothing.
>>
>> One line is that this is typically three commands without using any
>> user-written stuff:
>>
>> . sysuse auto, clear
>> (1978 Automobile Data)
>>
>> . numlabel origin, add
>>
>> . tab foreign
>>
>>     Car type |      Freq.     Percent        Cum.
>> ------------+-----------------------------------
>> 0. Domestic |         52       70.27       70.27
>>   1. Foreign |         22       29.73      100.00
>> ------------+-----------------------------------
>>        Total |         74      100.00
>>
>> . numlabel origin, remove
>>
>> . tab foreign
>>
>>     Car type |      Freq.     Percent        Cum.
>> ------------+-----------------------------------
>>     Domestic |         52       70.27       70.27
>>      Foreign |         22       29.73      100.00
>> ------------+-----------------------------------
>>        Total |         74      100.00
>>
>> but if you are saying that you want it as an option to -tabulate-,
>> that's presumably noted by StataCorp.
>>
>> Nick
>> [email protected]
>>
>>
>> On 13 February 2014 18:14, Bert Lloyd <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> Add a "both" option to -tab- that displays both numeric values and
>>> value labels, i.e. similar to -tabnl- from Nick Cox found here:
>>>
>>> http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2007-03/msg00601.html
>>>
>>> (There may be a more recent or authoritative version of -tabnl-
>>> elsewhere, apologies if so. -findit tabnl- did not return anything.)
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