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Re: st: RE: statalist-digest V4 #4433


From   Steve Samuels <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: RE: statalist-digest V4 #4433
Date   Mon, 20 Feb 2012 20:17:44 -0500

Good idea, Paul. And if the weights are not integers, David can expand to frequency weights equivalent to the original weights to any chosen number of decimal places (pointed out by Austin Nichols).

So, for k decimal places, use
new frequency weight = round(10^k * probability weight,1)

For example, for k = 1, 23.43 -> 234  a whole number.

As long as all weights are over 1, I'd guess that k= 0 (round to nearest integer) or k = 1 would be sufficient.

Steve
[email protected]



On Feb 19, 2012, at 3:20 PM, Seed, Paul wrote:

On Sat, Feb 18 2012, David Cefskimal wrote:
> I am using the -cluster kmeans- command to look for opinion clusters
[...]
> kmeans- command. How to change the code including the weighting
> variable w1?

Asssuming that values of w1 are integer, David can use

expand w1
cluster kmeans v1 v2 v3 v4 v5 v6 if vC==1, k(4) 

If they are simple fractions, he can use 

gen w2 = w1*12
expand w1
cluster kmeans v1 v2 v3 v4 v5 v6 if vC==1, k(4) 



Any significance tests & confidence intervals will be invalid; but 
if you are using cluster solely as a descriptive tool, 
you won't want those anyway.

Paul Seed 

King's College London, Division of Women's Health
(& Department of Primary Care and Public Health Sciences)
St Thomas' Hospital, Westminster Bridge Road, London SE1 7EH
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