I'm working with a very large dataset (NCDB), given the number of observations using chi2 to compare baseline group characteristics almost always renders "significant" differences among groups, even if the actual difference is very small.

I want to use standardized differences to compare both categorical and continuous variables for my "Table 1".

Is there a (easy) way to do this in STATA?


And example is this paper:
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https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0039606021000969#bib43
The method is described:
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 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03610910902859574?casa_token=Ho_stqthE_0AAAAA%3AbTjstwzbq046nS95w2qB9SoTPwOp_7ib0TkCEKVSwUVsXJNtsQR6xY2XW6DtG6RicXwzCCos5tF7YQ