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Re: st: Table for difference in means test
On 22 Jul 2007, at 00:35, Hugh Colaco wrote:
I am doing a difference in means test and am having problems
displaying a table. My variables names are q52-q61. I have a
categorical variable q2q6 which takes the value 1 or 2. I need the
table in the following format, based on the categorical variable. N =
no of obs.
Variable N1 Mean1 N2 Mean2 p-value
You might think of displaying the actual difference between the means
and its confidence interval, which helps the reader by doing the
subtraction sum for him/her and also giving a margin of uncertainty
about the result, neither of which your proposed format does.
Note that this is an easy matter using -regress-,
. sysuse auto
(1978 Automobile Data)
. regress mpg foreign
[snip]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
------
mpg | Coef. Std. Err. t P>|t| [95% Conf.
Interval]
-------------
+----------------------------------------------------------------
foreign | 4.945804 1.362162 3.63 0.001
2.230384 7.661225
_cons | 19.82692 .7427186 26.70 0.000
18.34634 21.30751
------------------------------------------------------------------------
------
The coefficient for foreign is the difference between the means. (If
you want the equivalent of a t-test for unequal variances, specify -
robust-).
This doesn't solve the problem of giving N1 and N2, but otherwise I
think it's a more useful line of output.
P Before printing, think about the environment
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