Tim Plante, MD MHS

Part 5: Baseline characteristics in a Table 1 for a prospective observational study

What’s the deal with Table 1? Tables describing the baseline characteristics of your analytical sample are ubiquitous in observational epidemiology manuscripts. They are critical to help the reader understand the study population and potential limitations of your analysis. A table characterizing baseline characteristics is so important that it’s typically the first table that appears in …

Table 1 with pweights in Stata

The very excellent table1_mc program will automate generation of your Table 1 for nearly all needs (read about it here), except for datasets using pweight. I’ve been toying around with automating Excel table generation using Stata v16+ Frames features. I recently started working on a database that requires pweighting for analyses, and opted to use …

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