I should add that I want graphs for depvar on xvar for each region
with CIs (in this hypothetical case) - and the actual design has many
more values of X (50 or more) and 9 or thereabouts "regions".
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 5:41 PM, Richard
Palmer-Jones<[email protected]> wrote:
> I see I should have looked at the decimal places.I can get the right
> labels by doing the approriate substr(). Obviously I need a more
> appriate formula for the CIs!
>
> On this occasion I want to draw CI graphs with the survey adjusted
> CIs., without having to go manual.
>
> RIchard
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 5:18 PM, Austin Nichols<[email protected]> wrote:
>> Richard Palmer-Jones<[email protected]>:
>> There are a variety of ways to loop over categories and collect
>> results, but note that the approach you give does not agree with the
>> results of -svy:mean- (check your CIs), and does not collect the
>> values of categorical variables (e.g. NE and E both become E). My
>> question stands--what do you want this for? The goal dictates the
>> preferred method. For example, if you wanted to write out a formatted
>> table, an easy way to go is to use -estout- e.g.
>>
>> use nhanes2, clear
>> la def smsa 1 "City" 2 "Noncity SMSA" 4 "NonSMSA"
>> la val smsa smsa
>> egen subpop=group(smsa region), label
>> svy: mean bpsystol, over(subpop) nohe noleg
>> qui ta subpop, gen(i_) label
>> qui svy: reg bpsystol i_*, nocons
>> eststo smsa
>> esttab smsa, nogap varw(25) la b(%9.4f) ci(%9.4f) nostar
>>
>> or to an MSWord file:
>>
>> esttab smsa using t.doc, rtf nogap varw(25) la b(%9.4f) ci(%9.4f) nostar
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 11:24 AM, Richard
>> Palmer-Jones<[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Sorry, I was taking a short cut - yes I want the ses - my problem
>>> was/is to access the e(over_labels) which consist of two comonents
>>> separated by a space.
>>>
>>> So to add ses I can
>>>
>>> .....
>>> mat ev = vecdiag(e(V))'
>>> mat eb = e(b)'
>>> mat en = e(_N)'
>>> mat evn = eb,ev,en
>>>
>>> drop _all
>>> svmat evn
>>> gen row = ""
>>> forval o = 1/`c(N)' {
>>> local r : label g `o'
>>> replace row = "`r'" in `o'
>>> }
>>> gen var1 = substr(row, 1, 2)
>>> gen var2 = substr(row, -1, 1)
>>> gen lb = evn1 - invttail(evn3-1,0.025) * (evn2^0.5 * sqrt(evn3) / sqrt(evn3))
>>> gen ub = evn1 + invttail(evn3-1,0.025) * (evn2^0.5 * sqrt(evn3) / sqrt(evn3))
>>>
>>> gives me the ses
>>>
>>> But I am disappointed I cannot captuer the over_labels in am ore
>>> elegant way, and was just thinking there must be a way to parse the
>>> e(over_labels) macro in a better way. but the spaces between "NE and
>>> "1`" were defeating me until I came upon the "local r : label
>>> labelname # " wheeze.
>>>
>>> So, expecting enlightenment
>>> On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 3:02 PM, Austin Nichols<[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> Richard Palmer-Jones<[email protected]>:
>>>>
>>>> I don't understand--if indeed you only want the weighted means and not
>>>> the SEs, then use -collapse- and get there in one line, and note that
>>>> pweights and aweights are equivalent if you do not need SEs. What do
>>>> you need this dataset of summary stats for, anyway? The goal dictates
>>>> the preferred method, in general. My point was just that the labels
>>>> (both numeric and string) for the -over- variable are easy to access.
>>>>
>>>> Also, it looks like in your original post you said "I want to compuile
>>>> the ereturned e(b) and e(v) results of a -mean var1, over(var2 var3,
>>>> nolabel)- into a usable form, such as rows in new variables or a
>>>> matrix, together with the relevatn values of var2 & var3" so a matrix
>>>> is what you asked for...
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 9:35 AM, Richard
>>>> Palmer-Jones<[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>> and then extracting the two values gives me the result I wan - a file
>>>>> with the resulsts of svy: mean .. , over()
>>>>>
>>>>> | v1 row var1 var2 |
>>>>> |-------------------------------|
>>>>> 1. | 125.7034 NE 1 NE 1 |
>>>>> 2. | 127.8939 NE 2 NE 2 |
>>>>> 3. | 129.4605 NE 4 NE 4 |
>>>>> 4. | 126.8856 MW 1 MW 1 |
>>>>> 5. | 126.381 MW 2 MW 2 |
>>>>> +-------------------------------+
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I am sure there are more elegant ways to do this, but I cannot get the
>>>>> more obvious ones to work for reasons I am sure are obvious to adpets.
>>
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