Re: st: Using weights for Pearson correlations

[Richard Williams <Richard.A.Williams.5@ND.edu>]

At 07:00 PM 7/24/2005 -0500, Mosi A. Ifatunji wrote:
> All,
>
> How do I use weights when conducting Pearson correlations? I have tried
> placing the weight syntax in three places:
>
> pwcorr x1 x2 x3 [pw=weight], if....
See -help pwcorr- .  The above comes closest but the -if- clause needs to 
come before the comma, i.e.

pwcorr x1 x2 x3 [pw=weight] if.... ,

HOWEVER, according to the help, only aweights and fweights are allowed, not 
pweights; so you may have to go to a plan B here.  Maybe there is another 
routine that does what you want, or maybe it can be done with the svy 
commands; I don't know.  Or, maybe you can just get by with using aweights, 
especially if you are not worried about significance tests.


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