RE: st: Testing differences for a binary variable

["Gauri Khanna" <gwkhanna@hotmail.com>]

Claude,

You might want to try -tabulate var1 var2, column chi2- where -column-just 
gives you the percentage shares that responded as 0 and 1.

Regards,


Gauri


> From: Claude Francoeur <claude.francoeur@hec.ca>
> Reply-To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> Subject: st: Testing differences for a binary variable
> Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 14:02:13 -0500
>
> Hello,
>
> I am using the scheffe option to compare means of a continuous variable
> (drink) for several groups (year in college):
>
> oneway drink year, tabulate scheffe
>
> This option is great. It produces a table showing means and P-values for 
> all
> combinaison of groups.
>
>
> What would be the correct command to compare a dichotomic variable (say
> heavy drinker vs occasional drinker) for the same groups (year in college) 
> ?
> I need to get frequencies and chi2 contributions in a table, for every
> possible group comparisons.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Claude
>
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