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st: Error in 2008 post on survey covariances


From   Steven Samuels <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   st: Error in 2008 post on survey covariances
Date   Tue, 21 Dec 2010 18:52:36 -0500

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Marlous Tuithof found a mistake in a formula I posted in 2008 for computing covariances for survey data (see:http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2008-10/msg00087.html).I am posting corrected code below. For those who need survey correlations, I recommend Nick Winter's -corr_svy-, available at SSC. I informed the original poster and I apologize to anyone else who used the code.

Steve

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*******************************************************
* Get covariances for survey data
* CORRECTED  2010-12-20
*******************************************************
sysuse auto,clear
svyset _n [pweight=rep78]
gen wt1000=weight/1000         // avoid large values
local cvars mpg wt1000 trunk  //variable list
svy: mean `cvars'
foreach w of varlist `cvars' {
foreach v of varlist `cvars' {
gen double c_`w'_`v' = (`w' - _b[`w'])*(`v' - _b[`v'])
}
}
svy: mean c_*
*****************CODE ENDS*************************




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