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Re: st: Re: comparison between a repeated ordinal measures


From   Joseph Coveney <[email protected]>
To   Statalist <[email protected]>
Subject   Re: st: Re: comparison between a repeated ordinal measures
Date   Fri, 01 Apr 2005 10:11:27 +0900

Michael Wood wrote (excerpted):

Joseph W. may want to consider dropping column 5 which has only one, unique 
observation, which will allow the use of Stata's -symmetry- command.

[output edited]

The symmetry model fits, albeit poorly; the marginals are different. The main 
source of difference for the symmetry chi sq is respondents (n=5) who reported 
3 at time0 and 4 at time1, versus those (n=18) who responded 4 at time0 and 3 
at time1.

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I believe that you can pad with zeroes in order to avoid throwing out data (see 
below).  Bowker's test doesn't account for the natural ordering of the scores.  
When you do (by specifying the -trend- option), you get the same result as for 
-mvtest- or -ttest-.

There might be something in the asymmetry of the self-reported health status 
scores that Michael describes; knowledge of content would be crucial to any 
interpretation here.  I naively would be more inclined to be guided by 
-ordplot-, which showed the two plots as essentially superimposable.

Joseph Coveney


clear
set more off
input byte sco0 byte cou1 byte cou2 byte cou3 byte cou4 byte cou5
1 28 18  6  0  0
2 21 78 44  1  0
3  7 34 96  5  1
4  0  3 18 16  0
5  0  0  0  0  0
end
reshape long cou, i(sco0) j(sco1)
symmetry sco0 sco1 [fweight= cou], trend
exit

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