Stephen,
Thanks so much for the feedback.
I didn't think of using aweights because they are defined as being inversely proportional to the variance of an observation.
The weights in my data represent the total number of households in the entire population that each particular household represents - probably derived as some fraction of the entire population.
The two are not equivalent, are they?
That's why I thought of using fweights. I was following Kieran's suggestion when I got your mail. I'd appreciate your comments on this, if it is not too much trouble.
Ramani
Stephen P Jenkins <[email protected]> wrote:
> Why do you need to convert the weights to integers? The -_pctile- and
> -kdensity- commands accept aweights, and aweights can be non-integer?
>
>
> Stephen
>
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: [email protected]
> > > [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Ramani
> > > Gunatilaka
> > > Sent: Thursday, 20 November 2003 10:42 AM
> > > To: [email protected]
> > > Subject: Re: st: converting non-integer weights into integer weights
> > >
> > >
> > > Hi all,
> > > I am sorry to bug you with this problem again but the solution that
> > > Branko very kindly suggested didn't work for me. To recap
> > briefly, I
> > > need to use weights with the _pctile and kdensity
> > commands. But mine
> > > are non-integer weights (for an example see my first mail
> > below) and
> > > even though I multiplied the weights by 100 as Branko
> > suggested (since
> > > they have only two decimal places) I get an error as follows:
> > >
> > > use c:\data95\hhcons95, clear
> > >
> > > . keep x hhsize w
> > >
> > > . gen freq=hhsize*w*100
> > >
> > > . _pctile x [fweight=freq],
> > > percentiles(5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55,60,65,7
> > > > 0,75,80,85,90,95,99)
> > >
> > > may not use noninteger frequency weights
> > > r(401);
> > >
> > > I have a hunch that multiplying the original weight by 100
> > made it too
> > > long to be stored as an integer. The largest transformed
> > weight then
> > > becomes 7 digits.
> > >
> > > Would anybody have any ideas on this?
> > >
> > > Thanks so much,
> > > Ramani
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > [email protected] wrote:
> > > > Ramani,
> > > >
> > > > why don;t you multiply the weights by a hundred (or whatever; a
> > > > thousand), and then create integers. kdensity should work then.
> > > >
> > > > best, branko
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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> > > > Ramani Gunatilaka
> > > > <[email protected] To:
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> > > > Sent by: cc:
> > > > [email protected] Subject: st: Use of Weights
> > in Kernel
> > > > Density Estimation ard.edu
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > 11/16/2003 09:11 AM
> > > > Please respond to statalist
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Hi all,
> > > > I hope there maybe someone out there who may be able to help me
> > > with this
> > > > query.
> > > > I have a household level data set of roughly 19,000
> > households with
> > > > the following variables: per capita consumption in rupees (x),
> > > > population weights
> > > > (w) and household size (hhsize) as in the sample below (I'm sorry
> > > > the column heads are not aligned).
> > > >
> > > > x w hhsize
> > > > 204.4059 176.45 3
> > > > 402.0174 119.22 6
> > > > 218.7155 51.84 8
> > > > 1083.199 1266.73 6
> > > > 303.6877 169.54 3
> > > >
> > > > The weights represent the number of households in the entire
> > > > population that each particular household represents.
> > > >
> > > > I need to estimate the kernel density of the consumption
> > > distribution and
> > > > have
> > > > consulted Stata's kdensity function as well as the
> > akdensity module
> > > > developed by Van Kerm. Both permit the use of weights,
> > but only of
> > > > fweights and aweights. But
> > > > while the weights in my data set are frequency weights, they are
> > > > certainly not
> > > > integers as required by Stata.
> > > >
> > > > Would someone know how I may get round this problem? I'd
> > rather use
> > > > the kdensity or akdensity commands and not have to write up a
> > > > programme from scratch.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks so much,
> > > > Ramani
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