Re: st: Control for the dependency of observations when correlate & ANOVA

[David Airey <david.airey@Vanderbilt.Edu>]

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Oops. Sorry. I read your post too quickly and even inserted the fact  
that you might be studying twin data or genetics when you did not say  
that!

-Dave

On Jan 8, 2008, at 5:48 PM, Wen Jun wrote:


> Hi All,
>
> I am trying to run some descriptive analyses (i.e. correlations,
> ANOVA) on two children within one family and want to control for the
> dependency of observations.  For example, my data include 1000
> families and each family has two children. I want to know the
> correlation between parenatl education and child gender, but want to
> control for the dependency of observation. That is, I don't want to
> correlate parental education and child gender for first and second
> born specifically. I am a SAS user. I have heard that this is possible
> to do in STATA, although I have no idea how to do it. Please give some
> suggestions. Thanks!
>
> Best,
>
> Wen
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