Summary Statistics table

[Muhammad Ramzan]

Hi all I have this sample data and I am trying to make the descriptive statistics table and I am getting the error message that " factor-variable and time-series operators not allowed"

what could be the issue and how to resolve it please

Thanks


* ---------------------------- DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS ----------------------- *
global vars_analysis " y x "

eststo clear
eststo d2: estpost tabstat $vars_analysis statistics(mean sd) columns(statistics)

* --------- TABLE 1 ------------- *
esttab d2 using "desc_stats.csv", replace ///
cells("mean(fmt(2))" "sd(fmt(2) par)") nomtitle nonumber label style(tex)

* Example generated by -dataex-. To install: ssc install dataex
clear
input int year str1 country double y byte x double u
1995 "A" 112.2795405 78    -.1204595
1996 "A" 112.2795405 75  -.763246334
1997 "A" 112.2795405 74   .379094511
1998 "A" 112.2795405 79  -.886656581
1999 "A" 112.2795405 59  1.245839221
2000 "A" 112.2795405 64 -1.058418364
1995 "B" 94.39353948 69  -.106460523
1996 "B" 94.39353948 80  -.457311186
1997 "B" 94.39353948 60  -1.88342245
1998 "B" 94.39353948 77   .317133339
1999 "B" 94.39353948 65  1.282185786
2000 "B" 94.39353948 52   -.32298002
1995 "C" 114.7968852 52  -.803114796
1996 "C" 114.7968852 74 -1.207924453
1997 "C" 114.7968852 70  -.166647011
1998 "C" 114.7968852 72  -.810126971
1999 "C" 114.7968852 63 -1.170526314
2000 "C" 114.7968852 68  -.905201329
1995 "D" 141.3790344 74  -.820965639
1996 "D" 141.3790344 70    .37226075
1997 "D" 141.3790344 71  -.334095039
1998 "D" 141.3790344 74  -.356031954
1999 "D" 141.3790344 67   .102470697
2000 "D" 141.3790344 77   .617302038
1995 "D" 31.47082634 71    .17082634
1996 "D" 31.68595914 69   .985959144
1997 "D" 26.15436307 51    .85436307
1998 "D" 26.76591095 56  -.034089052
1999 "D" 32.03381904 74  -.166180963
2000 "D" 33.04601463 76   .246014629
end

[Andrew Musau]

estout is from SSC (FAQ Advice #12). -statistics()- and -columns()- are options, so there should be a comma that precedes them.

eststo d2: estpost tabstat $vars_analysis, statistics(mean sd) columns(statistics)