Summary Statistics per Period

[Alex Anonymous]

I'm using panel data so have data for several periods, named 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5. I was wondering if there was a way to generate the summary statistics (Obs, Mean, SDV, Min, Max) for each period?
By default the 'summarize' function just returns the results for the periods combined, I believe.

Thanks for your help.

[Clyde Schechter]

by period, sort: summarize

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[Nick Cox]

I agree strongly with Clyde Schechter

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Although as Clyde suggested the summarize command (it's not a function; in Stata function is not a synonym for command) can be used in this way, the output can be a little awkward and something like

tabstat foo, by(period) s(n mean sd min max)

is an alternative.