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Universal and Mass Customization of Tables in Stata - PPT Presentation

Roy Wada University of Illinois at Chicago Purpose of this presentation Strong demand for universal approach to systematic tablemaking in Stata Strangest advice seems to be coming from people with no background in empirical research ID: 428449

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Slide1

Universal and Mass Customization of Tables in Stata

Roy Wada

University of Illinois at ChicagoSlide2

Purpose of this presentation:

Strong demand for universal approach to systematic table-making in

Stata

Strangest advice seems

to

be coming from people with no background in empirical research

Latest vaporware features in outreg2Slide3

Recent complaints about table-making

“With eight dimensions it is difficult to see how any program could cope with line lengths ~ 100 (rather than say ~ 1000) and not produce an awful mess one way or the other.” - Tue, 21 Apr 2009

“But there is a point where it no longer makes sense for official

Stata

or

ssc

contributions to support complicated structures that are only needed every once in a while...” - Wed, 11 Nov 2009

Stata

has *no* ability to do this (though I assume one could program it, but I doubt it would be easy)” - Thu, 13 Jan

2011Slide4

Universal table-making

There is no important difference between various types of tables

Regression tables & summary statistics are merged on conditions (happens to be variable names)

Cross-tabulation

(Stub-and-Banner

)

Tabulation is merely conditional counting

Cross-tabulation is a conditional counting merged on conditions

Stub-and-Banner happens to be a particular type of conditional countingSlide5

Mass customization

“Mass customization … is

the use of flexible computer-aided manufacturing systems to produce custom

output” (Wikipedia 07/14/2011)

A solution was to do it column by column (the original

outreg

by John Gallup), which had been criticized as somehow nontechnical or outdatedSlide6

Some issues with previous efforts

Many good programs exist (

outreg

,

estout

,

parmest

,

xml_tab

,

tabout

,

etc

)

General commentary:

Rube-Goldberg

syndrome – over-engineered non-solutions for performing “simple”

tasks

Mata-based programs are expensive and generally not extensive nor easily upgraded

Wrapper-based programs suffer from the existential question, i.e

. then why

didn’t

Stata

Corporation

do it that way

Some programs were

clearly designed

by

people with no background in empirical researchSlide7

Desirable functionality

What

researchers wanted

was quantity of tables, not quality (hundreds of regressions per day)

Rarely for publication purposes (they don’t get published)

Exact formatting often

gets destroyed by the journal type-setters anyway

Excel is a fact of life – virtually every researcher uses it

LaTeX

is not that popular – just look at the working papers floating around, clearly something elseSlide8

Latest vaporware in outreg2

Already does cross-tabulation

Extending it to including summary stats is straightforward

Sideway-

tranpose

operation doubles the type of table format

Some minor tweaks and bug fixes

Probably by the beginning of August 2011Slide9

Terms of use (fair

use)

outreg2

implements

tasks

previously unknown

in Stata or

described nearly impossible

. It is provided as a professional courtesy. I strongly object to re-publication this work of under false

pretense

Plagiarism

is unethical, unprofessional, and academically dishonest, and egregious cases should be

publicized

as a

deterrent.