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Re: st: -weight- spss: weight by -- telling stata the weight


From   Stas Kolenikov <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: -weight- spss: weight by -- telling stata the weight
Date   Thu, 2 Feb 2012 15:06:08 -0500

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On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 2:46 PM, David Cefskimal
<[email protected]> wrote:
> dear statalist,
>
> please help with hopefully simple problem:
>
> imagine that you have 4 variables in your dataset
>
> weight
> age
> sex
> country
>
> in spss if you say "weight by weight" computer will know, that now all
> your variables should be multiplied with the variable weight. so in
> your computer's "mind" the new dataset will look like:
>
> age*weight
> sex*weight
> country*weight
>
> in stata there is nothing like that? Do I really need to generate
> variables I use with weights each time, like
> gen (v1)=v11*w1
>
> THANKS
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