Thanks for the suggestion. I guess I'm going to use that and will also
calculate t and F statistics to compare the two data sets (btw they're NES
and LFS).
Ada Ma
Department of Economics
University of Aberdeen, Scotland
[email protected]
"Chevalier,A" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear Ada,
>
> One possible test is the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test of equality of
distribution, which you could test for each variable. It is available in
stata: ksmirnov. I hope this is of some help for your problem.
>
> Arnaud
>
> Dr Arnaud Chevalier
> Institute for the Study of Social Change
> University College Dublin
> Dublin 4
> Ireland
> and
> Centre for the Economics of Education
> London School of Economics
> Tel + 353 1 716 4616
> http://www.ucd.ie/~economic/staff/
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ada Ma [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Thu 16/01/2003 15:02
> To: [email protected]
> Cc:
> Subject: st: comparing distributions
>
>
>
> Hello.
>
> It's a statistics question as well as a stata question.
>
> I need to compare two sets of data with the same variables. Other than
> looking at the percentiles and quantiles of the two data sets, what can I
> do? Are there any test, both parametric and nonparametric, that would
allow
> me to do something like that?
>
> Are there Stata commands that would help me on this aspect too???
>
> Many thanks in advance.
>
> Ada Ma
> Department of Economics
> University of Aberdeen, Scotland
> [email protected]
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