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Re: st: tabstat, weights and correct standard errors of means


From   Svend Juul <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: tabstat, weights and correct standard errors of means
Date   Mon, 12 May 2008 10:11:59 +0200

Rob wrote:
 
I'm using tabstat with fweights to generate sample
means of some variables.  Is there a simple method to
get the correct standard errors for the means using
tabstat? The default standard errors of the means are
not sensitive to the use of weights and tabstat does
not function with svy. I cannot use tabout in this
case.
 
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What do you mean by "default standard errors are not sensitive 
to the use of weights"? In the following example [fweight] 
does influence SE:
 
     . sysuse auto
     . tabstat price , by(foreign) stat(mean semean)
 
     Summary for variables: price
          by categories of: foreign (Car type)
 
      foreign |      mean  se(mean)
     ---------+--------------------
     Domestic |  6072.423  429.4911
      Foreign |  6384.682  558.9942
     ---------+--------------------
        Total |  6165.257  342.8719
     ------------------------------
 
     . tabstat price [fweight=rep78] , by(foreign) stat(mean semean)
 
     Summary for variables: price
          by categories of: foreign (Car type)
 
      foreign |      mean  se(mean)
     ---------+--------------------
     Domestic |  6162.517  256.1235
      Foreign |  6133.778  236.4856
     ---------+--------------------
        Total |  6151.511  181.8117
     ------------------------------
 
Svend
 
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