Re: st: Re: RE: RE: best way to create iweight - code?

[Nicholas Winter <nw53@cornell.edu>]

This sounds like the process called raking, or post-stratifying (depending 
on whether you have only marginal distributions from A, or have the cell 
distributions as well.

See my package -survwgt-, on SSC.

Nick Cox's -mstdize- does some of this, too.

--Nick Winter

At 01:33 PM 11/13/2003 -0500, you wrote:

> > Objet : st: best way to create iweight?
> >
> >
> > I have dataset "A" with some distribution of age (in years) and sex
> > (0,1), and totally unrelated dataset "B" with some different
> > distribution of age and sex.  What is the most parsimonious way to
> > create an iweight for individuals in dataset B that will give it the
> > same age and sex distribution of dataset A?
> >
> > Thank you,
> > Lisa Jahns
> > University of North Carolina
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