Length of the names of variable in Test

[Ahmed Aziz]

Hey Everybody
Hope somebody can help me with this simple question. As you can see I am very new at STATA

I made this paired t test. It shortens duration bottle to durati^e and duration breast to durati^t. How can I make it write the full tekst under variable:

Please explain so a beginner can actually understand it :-)
Tnx

[Ahmed Aziz]

[William Lisowski]

Welcome to Statalist!

While some Stata commands have an option to expand the number of characters displayed in variable names before they are abbreviated, reading the documentation for the ttest command does not show such an option. It appears that your only option for avoiding the abbreviation of the variable names is to rename the variables to have names of 8 characters or less.

[Ahmed Aziz]

Thanks a lot for the answer. I might have to rename :-)

[Carlo Lazzaro]

Ahmed:
you may also want to use short variable names but then -label- variables with (reasonably) larger description, like in the following toy-example:

. set obs 1
obs was 0, now 1

. g dur_bott=runiform()

. label var dur_bott "duration bottle"

. tab dur_bott

   duration |
     bottle |      Freq.     Percent        Cum.
------------+-----------------------------------
   .1369841 |          1      100.00      100.00
------------+-----------------------------------
      Total |          1      100.00