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RE: st: Difference of means and t-test
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Richard Williams <[email protected]>
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[email protected], <[email protected]>
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RE: st: Difference of means and t-test
Date
Mon, 14 Jun 2010 13:08:29 -0500
At 11:19 AM 6/14/2010, Nick Cox wrote:
-- except that will surely overstate the strength of the conclusions, in
so far as the real distributions are unlikely to be exactly Gaussian.
Nick
[email protected]
I don't believe that is correct. You can often get by with only
having the summary statistics, which is why things like ttesti
work. Consider the following example (probably clunkier than
necessary but functional): First i use the real data to compute an
anova. Then, using the reported Ns, means, and standard deviations,
I create 4 fake data sets, append them together, and run the anova
again. Results are identical. There is obviously no reason to do
this if you have the real data, but stuff like this may be handy if
you only have published results to go by.
use "http://www.indiana.edu/~jslsoc/stata/spex_data/ordwarm2.dta";, clear
oneway age warm, t
corr2data age, n(297) mean(50.468013) sd(16.627471) clear
gen warm = 1
save warm1
corr2data age, n(723) mean(48.255878) sd(17.365776) clear
gen warm = 2
save warm2
corr2data age, n(856) mean(42.23715) sd(16.329103) clear
gen warm = 3
save warm3
corr2data age, n(417) mean(40.776978) sd(14.480446) clear
gen warm = 4
save warm4
clear all
append using warm1 warm2 warm3 warm4
oneway age warm, t
Pages 8-10 of the following handout show how you can do OLS
regression when you only have the means, standard deviations and
correlations available to you. (It also shows you what you can't
legitimately do):
http://www.nd.edu/~rwilliam/stats1/OLS-Stata9.pdf
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