Presenting summary statistics for different groups in a data set

[Matt Teale]

I have two groups in my panel. Companies that engage in mergers and those that don't signified by a dummary variable acquire=1 if a merger takes place. I would like to present summary statistics separately for the acquirers and non acquirers. How is this done?
Thanks very much in advance

[Carlo Lazzaro]

mattteale (as per FAQ, please note the strong preference on this forum for real full names and how to re-register accordingly. Thanks):
assuming that you want to present descriptive statistics concerning the income of the companies included in the two groups separately, you can try:

bysort dummy: summarize income

[Nick Cox]

mattteale: Someone with English as their first language would guess at "Matt Teale" as a parsing of your name, but as Carlo's request implies, that is not going to be transparent to all readers here.

In addition to Carlo's helpful answer, look at tabstat.

[Matt Teale]

Am grateful for your responses and will change my name or create another account if necessary.

[Carlo Lazzaro]

Matt (I suppose):
there's no need to change you account. Just click on the Contact us button bottom left the screen to re-registering according to the Forum preference. Thanks.