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worldbank / ietoolkit

Stata commands designed for Impact Evaluations in particular, but also data work in general
https://worldbank.github.io/ietoolkit/
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iebaltab wide #170

Open alyssonlp opened 5 years ago

alyssonlp commented 5 years ago

Hey guys! I am using your iebaltab command, but I would like to place my standard deviations beside the mean of the groups. Could you introduce such option when you update the command? I would be something like the 'wide' option in esttab.

Thank you! Alysson

kbjarkefur commented 5 years ago

Hi @alyssonlp ! Thanks for your feedback! Always much appreciated!

Are you suggesting this for the LaTeX output?

We are currently planning a big re-write of iebaltab and we will unfortunately not make updates to the command before doing that. One major reason for the re-write is that smaller edits like this is a pain to do in the current structure of the command.

In the re-written version the LaTeX output and the Excel output will be separated and we can add specific options to them independently. We are planning to have the Excel output fairly fixed, but make the LaTeX output customizable.

We will write progress updates here so you will be notified on progress as long as you keep subscribing to this issue.

Thanks again!

alyssonlp commented 5 years ago

Hi @kbjarkefur , thanks for your answer. I am glad to hear that you guys are working on a re-write.

And yes, I was referring to the LaTeX output. There is another feature of 'esttab' that I appreciate which is the possibility of previewing the output in Stata's window, so there is no need to open a LaTeX compiler and check whether or not the table looks alright. If you are going to add customizable options, I think this possibility will be really valuable for users.

Best regards,

kbjarkefur commented 5 years ago

Hi again @alyssonlp !

Ok, sounds good! We should be able to implement a wide option unless we run into some reason why we cant when we implement this.

Being able to show the results in the Stata window is one of the main reasons for the re-write. Outputting tables in Stata's result window is a pain. We experimented on an approach to make that easier for the new command ieddtab and that worked well so we will use that for the re-write. It will obviously never look the same as in LaTeX, but users should be able to quickly look at their results without opening a LaTeX compiler.

kendalswanson commented 1 month ago

Hi there!

Did an option that puts SDs next to means in the same row (as opposed to stacked) ever get implemented?