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Re: st: testing the equality of medians


From   Ronan Conroy <[email protected]>
To   "statalist hsphsun2.harvard.edu" <[email protected]>
Subject   Re: st: testing the equality of medians
Date   Mon, 3 Nov 2003 10:27:00 -0000

on 31/10/2003 16:54, Shahbaz Ali Sheikh at [email protected] wrote:



Hi, 

I need to test the equality of medians, how can I do that. I know ttest does

that for means only. 



A t-test is just a regression where the only predictor is binary. Stata's
quantile regression allows you to use a binary predictor to model the
median.

This approach has the advantage that you may want to adjust the comparison
for confounding or biasing variables.


Ronan M Conroy ([email protected])
Lecturer in Biostatistics
Royal College of Surgeons
Dublin 2, Ireland
+353 1 402 2431 (fax 2764) 

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