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Re: st: RE: Re: Weighted number of observations


From   Richard Williams <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: RE: Re: Weighted number of observations
Date   Tue, 03 Aug 2004 15:51:24 -0500

At 03:34 PM 8/3/2004 +0100, Nick Cox wrote:
This isn't a -tabstat- issue as such. -tabstat-
just passes the buck to -summarize-, which
behaves in the same way.

The issue is delicate, but hinges, I surmise,
on this distinction. When -summarize- (e.g.) _uses_
the sum of the weights, it rescales first.
As quoted, [U] 14.1.6 includes the expression
"when it uses them", which thus appears not
ornamental, but crucial.

When -summarize- _displays_ the sum of the
weights, it displays the unscaled sum.
Good point, although it still leaves open the question of why it behaves this way. A long-standing oversight or bug? Sound statistical practice? (If so, it wouldn't be the first time Stata has surprised me by not doing what I expected, and then having it turn out that Stata was right.) Should -tabstat- be modified so it doesn't just pass the buck to -summarize-?


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