Stephen,
Thanks so much for the free tute. I really appreciate it.
Ramani
Stephen P Jenkins <[email protected]> wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [email protected]
> > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
> > Ramani Gunatilaka
> > Sent: 20 November 2003 09:32
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: RE: st: converting non-integer weights into integer weights
> >
> >
> > Stephen,
> > Thanks so much for the feedback.
> > I didn't think of using aweights because they are defined as
> > being inversely proportional to the variance of an
> > observation. The weights in my data represent the total
> > number of households in the entire population that each
> > particular household represents - probably derived as some
> > fraction of the entire population.
> > The two are not equivalent, are they?
> > That's why I thought of using fweights. I was following
> > Kieran's suggestion when I got your mail. I'd appreciate your
> > comments on this, if it is not too much trouble. Ramani
>
> Regardless of how aweights are sometimes motivated, and how your weights
> are motivated, you've ended with a variable that is the weight that you
> want to use and it is non-integer. Using the aweight option is simply a
> means of doing your calculations. (Where the different assumptions
> about what underlies the weights really matters typically affects the
> calculation of the sampling variances associated with the statistics of
> interest rather than the point estimates, and it is the latter that you
> seek)
>
>
> Stephen
> -------------------------------------------------------------
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> Institute for Social and Economic Research
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>
> >
> > Stephen P Jenkins <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > Why do you need to convert the weights to integers? The
> > -_pctile- and
> > > -kdensity- commands accept aweights, and aweights can be
> > non-integer?
> > >
> > >
> > > Stephen
> > >
> > > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > > From: [email protected]
> > > > > [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Ramani
> > > > > Gunatilaka
> > > > > Sent: Thursday, 20 November 2003 10:42 AM
> > > > > To: [email protected]
> > > > > Subject: Re: st: converting non-integer weights into
> > integer weights
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Hi all,
> > > > > I am sorry to bug you with this problem again but the solution
> > > > > that
> > > > > Branko very kindly suggested didn't work for me. To recap
> > > > briefly, I
> > > > > need to use weights with the _pctile and kdensity
> > > > commands. But mine
> > > > > are non-integer weights (for an example see my first mail
> > > > below) and
> > > > > even though I multiplied the weights by 100 as Branko
> > > > suggested (since
> > > > > they have only two decimal places) I get an error as follows:
> > > > >
> > > > > use c:\data95\hhcons95, clear
> > > > >
> > > > > . keep x hhsize w
> > > > >
> > > > > . gen freq=hhsize*w*100
> > > > >
> > > > > . _pctile x [fweight=freq],
> > > > > percentiles(5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55,60,65,7
> > > > > > 0,75,80,85,90,95,99)
> > > > >
> > > > > may not use noninteger frequency weights
> > > > > r(401);
> > > > >
> > > > > I have a hunch that multiplying the original weight by 100
> > > > made it too
> > > > > long to be stored as an integer. The largest transformed
> > > > weight then
> > > > > becomes 7 digits.
> > > > >
> > > > > Would anybody have any ideas on this?
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks so much,
> > > > > Ramani
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > [email protected] wrote:
> > > > > > Ramani,
> > > > > >
> > > > > > why don;t you multiply the weights by a hundred (or
> > whatever; a
> > > > > > thousand), and then create integers. kdensity should
> > work then.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > best, branko
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
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> > > > > >
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> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Ramani Gunatilaka
> > > > > > <[email protected] To:
> > > > > > ash.edu.au> [email protected]
> > > > > > Sent by: cc:
> > > > > > [email protected] Subject: st: Use of Weights
> > > > in Kernel
> > > > > > Density Estimation ard.edu
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > 11/16/2003 09:11 AM
> > > > > > Please respond to statalist
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Hi all,
> > > > > > I hope there maybe someone out there who may be able
> > to help me
> > > > > with this
> > > > > > query.
> > > > > > I have a household level data set of roughly 19,000
> > > > households with
> > > > > > the following variables: per capita consumption in rupees (x),
> > > > > > population weights
> > > > > > (w) and household size (hhsize) as in the sample
> > below (I'm sorry
> > > > > > the column heads are not aligned).
> > > > > >
> > > > > > x w hhsize
> > > > > > 204.4059 176.45 3
> > > > > > 402.0174 119.22 6
> > > > > > 218.7155 51.84 8
> > > > > > 1083.199 1266.73 6
> > > > > > 303.6877 169.54 3
> > > > > >
> > > > > > The weights represent the number of households in the entire
> > > > > > population that each particular household represents.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I need to estimate the kernel density of the consumption
> > > > > distribution and
> > > > > > have
> > > > > > consulted Stata's kdensity function as well as the
> > > > akdensity module
> > > > > > developed by Van Kerm. Both permit the use of weights,
> > > > but only of
> > > > > > fweights and aweights. But
> > > > > > while the weights in my data set are frequency
> > weights, they are
> > > > > > certainly not integers as required by Stata.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Would someone know how I may get round this problem? I'd
> > > > rather use
> > > > > > the kdensity or akdensity commands and not have to write up a
> > > > > > programme from scratch.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Thanks so much,
> > > > > > Ramani
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