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RE: st: graph mean and sd over/by category


From   "Nick Cox" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   RE: st: graph mean and sd over/by category
Date   Tue, 11 Feb 2003 09:38:58 -0000

Lee Sieswerda
> 
> I was writing a reply to George Hoffman's question, when 
> Vince Wiggins reply
> popped into my mail box. I have a question for Vince. 
> First, here was what I
> was suggesting for George.
> 
> bysort foreign: egen mean = mean(weight)
> bysort foreign: egen sd = sd(weight)
> bysort foreign: gen ub = mean + 
> invttail(_N-1,.025)*(sqrt((sd^2)/_N))
> bysort foreign: gen lb = mean - 
> invttail(_N-1,.025)*(sqrt((sd^2)/_N))
> twoway (rcap lb ub foreign) (scatter mean foreign)
> 
> This gives the same results as -ci-. Specifically, it gives 
> a 95% CI with
> the t critical value based on _N-1 observations within 
> strata (of foreign in
> this case). It is -ci-'s results that I gather Nick Cox is 
> using to produce
> his new -ciplot- (pardon me Nick, if I'm misrepresenting you).

Correct. 

Nick 
[email protected] 


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