How to do tabstat varlist with all variables

[Tom Kisters]

Dear Stata users,

I have data with long variable names. When I want to use "summarize", it abbreviates the variable names.

I heard that tabstat works better. However, in contrast to summarize, tabstat requires a varlist

describe, varlist

works fine. But

tabstat, varlist

Does not work. It says varlist required.

tabstat varlist

Gives, varlist not found. How do I get tabstat to display all variables?

Is there an easy way to put all variables in a varlist?

Tom

[Nick Cox]

If you click on varlist (in blue) in the help for tabstat you will get an introduction to wildcards. Thus * is in general a way of indicating all variables. However, tabstat will not accept a list including any string variables, so a general way to look at all numeric variables would be

ds, has(type numeric)
tabstat `r(varlist)'

See also https://www.statalist.org/forums/for...ables-in-stata