st: re: confidence interval for median

From	Kit Baum <Baum@bc.edu>
To	statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
Subject	st: re: confidence interval for median
Date	Sat, 9 Aug 2008 10:36:03 -0400

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Moleps wants to get a c.i. for a median (athough he mentions mean). Perhaps a bootstrap standard error would make sense:

sysuse auto
bootstrap r(p50): summarize mpg,detail

will do it.

Kit Baum, Boston College Economics and DIW Berlin
http://ideas.repec.org/e/pba1.html
An Introduction to Modern Econometrics Using Stata:
http://www.stata-press.com/books/imeus.html

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