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st: RE: significance of differences


From   Kieran McCaul <[email protected]>
To   "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject   st: RE: significance of differences
Date   Fri, 1 Jun 2012 14:48:33 +0800

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I don't understand this.
What null hypothesis are you testing?  That the mean in the first fifth equals the mean in the last fifth?
If you split a variable AT the quintiles then the mean in the first fifth will be different from the mean in the last fifth by definition, won't it.



-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of "Fabian Schönenberger"
Sent: Friday, 1 June 2012 2:27 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: st: significance of differences 

Dear Statalist
I want to compare if the difference of a specific variable between the first and fifth quintile is significant. 
I tried ttest with if; ttest var if varquintile==1 == var if varquintile==5 
However, this does not work. Any suggestions?

Many thanks in advance, Fabian 
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