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Re: st: How do I summarize and report predicted medians after qreg command?


From   Maarten buis <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: How do I summarize and report predicted medians after qreg command?
Date   Tue, 20 Jan 2009 18:21:18 +0000 (GMT)

--- I M <[email protected]> wrote:
> Also, I know that I can easily do this using the 'adjust' command as
> well, but my question is: If I wanted to report the adjusted median,
> do I want to report the median (50%ile) or the mean "of the predicted
> median"?

That is up to you, both the mean and the median are legitimate measures
of central tendency,

-- Maarten


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Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
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