asdoc: using two variables with bysort for summary statistics

[Aamina Khurram]

#3190

Dear Dr. Attaullah Shah

I hope you are in good health. As you would remember Could you please see the request below.

I am running the following command in stata but it does not work to output using asdoc

bysort Country IDType:  sum Var1

when I use the same code without asdoc command, it says too many variables stated, although the output is otherwise produced by stata.

I particularly want an output using this command:

bysort Country IDType: asdoc sum Var1

I believe this is something that asdoc fails to output.

It would be kind enough if you can clarify this bit.

Thanking in anticipation

[Attaullah Shah]

#3193

Currently, asdoc allows bysort prefix with only one variable. If you need to use two variables with bysort, then there is a workaround. Convert both the variables to a single with using the group function of egen, and then use the new variable with asdoc. see this example

egen Ctry_ID= group(Country IDType)

bysort Ctry_ID: asdoc sum Var1

Please cite asdoc in your research.
In-text citation
Tables were created using asdoc, a Stata program written by Shah (2018).

Bibliography
Shah, A. (2018). ASDOC: Stata module to create high-quality tables in MS Word from Stata output. Statistical Software Components S458466, Boston College Department of Economics.

[Aamina Khurram]

#3197

Dear Dr. Atta,

Indeed the code apparently seems to solve the problem but is limited in displaying the complete information. It only displays the numbers as 1,2,3 for the grouping variables in Country_ID, which is not if much use. In simple words I need the output as below:

summary stats of Var1(Profit) of Country & ID_Type  
Country	                 ID_type
 	      Banks(Profit)	      Real Estate (Profit)
___________________________________________________________	
            N, Mean, SD, min max       N, Mean, SD, min max
_______________________________       _____________________
Bahrain	        11	                  6	
Bangladesh	 8	                  1	
Egypt	        14	                  2	
Indonesia	16	                  0	
Jordan	       126	                  2	
Total	       xyz                      xyz	
_________________________________________________________

However, I get the output from the above given code in #3193 as:

 
_____________________________________________________
ID     N	mean	 sd	  min	  max
_____________________________________________________
 1	264	.233	.497	-1.999	 2.387
 10	77	.13	.332	-.751	.745
 2	279	.197	.366	-1.999	 1.918
 3	294	.109	.149	-.785	.584
 4	31	.188	.072	.025	.358
 5	275	.189	.26	-.743	.996
 6	82	-.064	.277	-1.339	.329
 7	857	.099	1.243	-6.832	 29.043
 8	0	.	.	.	.
 9	631	-.002	.394	-1.999	 1.865
__________________________________________________

What I need is the depiction of my country and ID types in the first column here which is just shown as numbers. I hope there shall be some way to get around this. Because The number of ID_type I have is more than 600, it is not very convenient to do this manually.

Kind Regards:
Aamina

[Attaullah Shah]

#3213

Perhaps you need to use the tabstat command for this. tabstat is more flexible than sum command. And even you can give a try to the table command.

[Aamina Khurram]

#3216

Dear Dr Attaullah Shah

Thanks for your reply. Unfortunately neither tabstat nor Table seems to give me what is required in #3197. The output is shown perfect by stata without using asdoc with this code:

bysort Country IDType: sum Var1

but does not give me the desired presentation in Word when I use the same command with asdoc.

[Attaullah Shah]

#3217

See this example

sysuse auto, clear
bysort foreign rep78  : sum price
table foreign rep78, contents(freq mean price sd price min price min price )
asdoc table foreign rep78, contents(freq mean price sd price min price min price ) replace

------------------------------------------------------------
          |                Repair Record 1978               
 Car type |        1         2         3         4         5
----------+-------------------------------------------------
 Domestic |        2         8        27         9         2
          |  4,564.5   5,967.6   6,607.1   5,881.6   4,204.5
          | 522.5519  3579.357  3661.267  1592.019  311.8341
          |    4,195     3,667     3,291     3,829     3,984
          |    4,195     3,667     3,291     3,829     3,984
          | 
  Foreign |        .         .         3         9         9
          |        .         .   4,828.7   6,261.4   6,292.7
          |        .         .  1285.613  1896.092  2765.629
          |        .         .     3,895     3,995     3,748
          |        .         .     3,895     3,995     3,748
------------------------------------------------------------

*And using tabstat
by foreign, sort : tabstat price, statistics( count mean sd min min ) by(rep78)

• This reply was modified 4 years ago by Attaullah Shah.
• This reply was modified 4 years ago by Attaullah Shah.

[Aamina Khurram]

#3221

Dear Dr Attaullah Shah

Thanks a lot for your assistance on this matter. But the asdoc code with Table is giving errors.

asdoc table foreign rep78, contents(freq mean price sd price min price min price ) replace

It says 0000006 not found. error r(111).

Any thing to fix this?

Best
Aamina

[Aamina Khurram]

#3222

Also with your tabstat code:

*And using tabstat
by foreign, sort : tabstat price, statistics( count mean sd min min ) by(rep78)

where can we put asdoc to get the output?

Best
Aamina

• This reply was modified 4 years ago by Attaullah Shah.

[Attaullah Shah]

#3225

I just checked the following and works fine. Do you have an updated copy of asdoc? You can check by

which asdoc
asdoc table foreign rep78, contents(freq mean price sd price min price max price ) replace

------------------------------------------------------------
          |                Repair Record 1978               
 Car type |        1         2         3         4         5
----------+-------------------------------------------------
 Domestic |        2         8        27         9         2
          |  4,564.5   5,967.6   6,607.1   5,881.6   4,204.5
          | 522.5519  3579.357  3661.267  1592.019  311.8341
          |    4,195     3,667     3,291     3,829     3,984
          |    4,934    14,500    15,906     8,814     4,425
          | 
  Foreign |        .         .         3         9         9
          |        .         .   4,828.7   6,261.4   6,292.7
          |        .         .  1285.613  1896.092  2765.629
          |        .         .     3,895     3,995     3,748
          |        .         .     6,295     9,735    11,995
------------------------------------------------------------

[Aamina Khurram]

#3226

Dear Dr Attaullah Shah

I just checked, the asdoc version I have is the latest one, I had copied from the link you gave me above:

Version 2.3.7.3 : Changes made on April 1, 2020 : Fixed bug in ttest by(vars)

I am still getting errors to export the Table to asdoc, it is otherwise produced by Stata.

[Aamina Khurram]

#3227

Dear Dr Attaullah

Thank you so much, I just checked again and the error was resolved once I restarted Stata.

Best Regards,

Aamina

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