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Re: st: RE: New package -wridit- on SSC


From   "Roger B. Newson" <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: RE: New package -wridit- on SSC
Date   Mon, 27 Feb 2012 12:56:21 +0000

Thanks to Nick for these references, which I will check out. Ridits seem to have nearly as many names as Somers' D, some of whose forms are asymptotically equivalent either to a paired t-test on the ridits or to an unequal-variance t-test on the ridits.

Roger


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On 27/02/2012 12:45, Nick Cox wrote:
Ridits are also the mid-distribution function of Parzen (1993, 3295) and the grade function of Haberman (1996, 240-241).

     Haberman, S. J. 1996.  Advanced Statistics Volume I: Description of Populations.  New York: Springer.

     Parzen, E. 1993. Change PP plot and continuous sample quantile function. Communications in Statistics -Theory and Methods 22: 3287-3304.

Nick
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Roger B. Newson

Thanks as always to Kit Baum, a new package -wridit- is now available
for download from SSC. In Stata, use the -ssc- command to do this.

The -wridit- package is described as below on my website, and calculayes
weighted ridits for a variable. Zero weights are allowed, in which case
the ridits for the observations with zero weights are relative to the
weight distribution in the observations with non-zero weights. Ridits,
and the left, right and central inverse ridits, are important in rank
statistics, which, strictly speaking, are really ridit statistics. They
are also potentially useful in spline statistics, where the user might
want to define a spline in the ridit of an X-variable, instead of in the
X-variable itself.

I would like to thank Nick Cox for writing the -ridit()- function of the
-egenmore- package, which generates unweighted ridits, and from which I
borrowed a few ideas for -wridit-. I slightly revised the algorithm for
-wridit-, in order to avoid the small numerical accuracy issues
associated with adding a small probability to a large probability.

---------------------------------------------------------------------------
package wridit from http://www.imperial.ac.uk/nhli/r.newson/stata10
---------------------------------------------------------------------------

TITLE
        wridit: Generate weighted ridits

DESCRIPTION/AUTHOR(S)
        wridit inputs a variable and generates its weighted ridits.
        If no weights are provided, then all weights are assumed
        equal to 1, so unweighted ridits are generated.

        Author: Roger Newson
        Distribution-Date: 22february2012
        Stata-Version: 10

INSTALLATION FILES                                  (click here to install)
        wridit.ado
        wridit.sthlp
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(click here to return to the previous screen)

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