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Re: st: Formula for weighted standard error


From   Steven Samuels <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: Formula for weighted standard error
Date   Wed, 17 Nov 2010 15:40:48 -0500

However in an introductory sampling book, the word "linearized" might not appear: look for the formula for the estimated SE of the mean with clustered, stratified, and weighted sampling.

The formula is also given in any sampling book and you can find it in online class notes as well. By the way, proper spelling of our program is "Stata", not "STATA", as shown in the FAQ Section 9

Steve
[email protected]


On Nov 17, 2010, at 2:42 PM, Stas Kolenikov wrote:

On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 1:08 PM, Emre Ozaltin <[email protected]> wrote:
I am running the command
"svy: mean"

using pweights

"svyset [pweight=X], psu(Y) strata(Z) singleunit(certainty)"

Can anyone tell me the formula that STATA uses in calculating the
standard error in this case (reported as "Linearized Std. Err.")

Two abbreviations come to mind: OMG and RTFM. The general formula is
in the manual, and so is the discussion of the singleton PSU options
(and how the variances are computed for those options), although you
might have to spend a minute or two locating it if it is not right
there in the entry for -svyset-.



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Stas Kolenikov, also found at http://stas.kolenikov.name
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