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AW: st: finding means and percentiles with mim
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"Martin Weiss" <[email protected]>
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AW: st: finding means and percentiles with mim
Date
Fri, 26 Mar 2010 16:47:56 +0100
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" In looking at the confidence intervals, the ones produced by sqreg/qreg
are slightly shorter than the ones produced by centile."
How does the fact that we are comparing analytic (-centile-) and
-bootstrap-ped (-sqreg-) standard errors play into your considerations?
HTH
Martin
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Peter
Gesendet: Freitag, 26. März 2010 16:41
An: '[email protected]'
Betreff: RE: st: finding means and percentiles with mim
Martin and I have had an interchange off-line on this. I'd like to
summarize my interpretation.
The centile command uses a single observation to estimate the percentile.
The sqreg or qreg command uses a weighted combination of the observations.
So I would expect them to differ. In looking at the confidence intervals,
the ones produced by sqreg/qreg are slightly shorter than the ones produced
by centile.
It may be easier to talk about centile to a client, but the issue of short
confidence intervals is important to me. Also, for multiple imputation, you
can't use centile, so that tips the balance for me.
Thanks very much to Martin. I appreciate his good comments on all issues.
Tony
Peter A. Lachenbruch
Department of Public Health
Oregon State University
Corvallis, OR 97330
Phone: 541-737-3832
FAX: 541-737-4001
-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Martin Weiss
Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2010 9:24 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: AW: st: finding means and percentiles with mim
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Those percentiles are slightly off, however:
*************
clear*
set obs 1000
set seed 234232
gen x=rgamma(2,2)
sqreg x, quantiles(10 25 50 75 90) reps(2)
centile x, centile(10 25 50 75 90)
*************
HTH
Martin
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Peter
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 25. März 2010 16:40
An: '[email protected]'
Betreff: RE: st: finding means and percentiles with mim
I agree with the message. However, what I am looking for is a descriptive
statistic, so the command sqreg y, quantile(10 25 50 75 90) will give me
the percentiles that I want.
Here is some output.
. mim:sqreg lck ,quantile(10 25 50 75 90)
Multiple-imputation estimates (sqreg) Imputations = 20
Minimum obs = 432
Minimum dof = 386.9
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
lck | Coef. Std. Err. t P>|t| [95% Conf. Int.] FMI
---------+----------------------------------------------------------------
_cons | 5.01997 .118927 42.21 0.000 4.78621 5.25373 0.008
---------+----------------------------------------------------------------
/q25 | 5.79006 .081047 71.44 0.000 5.63076 5.94937 0.017
/q50 | 6.95493 .132365 52.54 0.000 6.69472 7.21513 0.030
/q75 | 8.52631 .170016 50.15 0.000 8.19204 8.86058 0.050
/q90 | 9.56167 .132408 72.21 0.000 9.30136 9.82199 0.045
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Tony
Peter A. Lachenbruch
Department of Public Health
Oregon State University
Corvallis, OR 97330
Phone: 541-737-3832
FAX: 541-737-4001
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Martin Weiss
Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2010 12:48 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: st: finding means and percentiles with mim
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" the command qreg is supported by mim, so I think I can use it."
Note the cautionary tale in this thread, though:
http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2009-11/msg01343.html
HTH
Martin
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