At 13:10 14-1-2004, Richard Williams wrote:
Weights are discussed on pgs. 278-282 of the Stata 8 Users Guide. -help
weights- from within Stata gives a lot of the same info but not as much
explanation as to rationale. A few points:
* I don't understand the practical difference between fweights and
iweights. The guide says that iweights are usually used by programmers;
why they don't use fweights instead, I don't know.
fweights don't allow non-integers, that's the main difference.
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