Information

A nice alternative to summarize is tabstat.

Per default, you will only get the mean value, but you can additionally order the following descriptive statistics (just to give some examples):

Count of nonmissing obs. (same as count)	n
Count of nonmissing obs. (same as n)	count	co
Sum	sum	su
Minimum (smallest) observed value	min	mi
Maximum (largest) observed value	max	ma
Range between minimum and maximum	range	r
Standard deviation	sd
Variance	variance	v
Skewness	skewness	sk
Kurtosis	kurtosis	k
Median (same as p50)	median	med

Function

Basic command

tabstat varname

Useful options

tabstat varname, stat(x) tabstat varname, stat(x) by(groupvar)

Explanations
varname	Insert the name of the variable you want to use.
stat(x)	Replace “x” by specifying the statistics you want to show.
by(groupvar)	Specify a group variable.

More information help tabstat

Practical example 1

Dataset

StataData1.dta

Variable name	gpa
Variable label	Grade point average (Age 15, Year 1985)
Value labels	N/A

You can use tabstat for a single variable and specify as many statistics as you like:

tabstat gpa, stat(n me med mi ma r sd v sk k)

And here is an example where sex is included as a group variable:

tabstat gpa, stat(n me med mi ma r sd v sk k) by(sex)

Practical example 2

Dataset

StataData1.dta

Variable name	gpa
Variable label	Grade point average (Age 15, Year 1985)
Value labels	N/A

Variable name	cognitive
Variable label	Cognitive test score (Age 15, Year 1985)
Value labels	N/A

You can use also use tabstat for multiple variables:

tabstat gpa cognitive, stat(n me med mi ma r sd v sk k)