Summary Statistics Stata. Without the by option tabstat is a useful alternative to summarize see r summarize because it allows you to specify the list of statistics to be displayed. Summarize with aweight s displays s for the std.
Tabstat displays summary statistics for a series of numeric variables in one table possibly broken down on conditioned by another variable. The describe command shows you basic information about a stata data file. Here we will use the auto data file.
Once you have a dataset ready to analyze 1 the first step of any good empirical project should be to create summary statistics.
Tabstat displays summary statistics for a series of numeric variables in one table possibly broken down on conditioned by another variable. For instance the last row of the table reveals that the average mileage of domestic cars is 19 83 and that of foreign cars is 24 77 domestic cars yield poorer mileage than foreign cars. But we now see that domestic cars. In this workshop you will learn to use stata to create basic summary statistics cross tabulations and increasingly rich tables of summary statistics.
