Baselinetable: A command for creating oneand two-way tables of summary statistics

Abstract

In this article, I describe baselinetable, a community-contributed command for creating one-and two-way tables of summary statistics for a list of numeric variables. Unlike other Stata tabulation commands such as tabulate, table, or tabstat, the variables forming the table rows can be a mixture of continuous (summarized by mean, standard deviation, etc.) and categorical (summarized by percentages and frequencies). baselinetable provides considerable flexibility in the way the results are displayed. In particular, the summary statistics and their presentation can be different for each row variable. Additional features include several options for displaying counts of missing and nonmissing dat..