--- Vincenzo Carrieri <[email protected]> wrote:
> but expand command just duplicate each observation. It does not
> randomly replicate my sample.
> Do you think that "expand" is enough to do a bit of inference on my
> proportion?
The whole point of my answer is that I advised that you should first
used the conventional methods (which use the fact that a proportion is
nothing other than a mean) before resorting to resampling methods.
-expand- does nothing other than make your data useable for
-proportion-. It is -proportion- that computes the standard errors and
confidence intervals. Alternatively, you should get exactly the same
results if you type:
proportion esenti [fw=nnoti]
-- Maarten
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