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Re: st: Cumulative average of categorical variables


From   Nick Cox <[email protected]>
To   "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject   Re: st: Cumulative average of categorical variables
Date   Sat, 7 May 2011 12:18:15 +0100

If it's reasonable to average your categories, rounding afterwards just throws away information. (Think grade-point averages.)

Nick

On 7 May 2011, at 11:48, Marcello Pagano
<[email protected]> wrote:

For Luisa:

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Luisa Soares-Miranda<[email protected]>
Date: Fri, May 6, 2011 at 12:37 PM
Subject: cumulative average of categorical variables
To: [email protected]


Dear all,

Can anyone tell me how should I do the cumulative average of categorical
variables? My variable was measured in year 1, 2, 3, 4, and they are
categorical ( 4 categories, 0,1,2,3) , so I had use rowmedian. However in the en my final variable (the cumulative average ) comes out like this:

Cum_averg |      Freq.     Percent        Cum.
------------+-----------------------------------
        0 |        360        6.11        6.11
       .5 |        342        5.81       11.92
        1 |      2,220       37.70       49.62
      1.5 |        792       13.45       63.07
        2 |      1,611       27.36       90.42
      2.5 |        261        4.43       94.85
        3 |        303        5.15      100.00
------------+-----------------------------------
    Total |      5,889      100.00

So my problem is how do I categorize my new variable the cumulative average
into (0,1,2,3)??? That is whys I do not know if I am doing this right.



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