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Re: st: Binning question
From
"Samuel R. Lucas" <[email protected]>
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[email protected]
Subject
Re: st: Binning question
Date
Mon, 1 Aug 2011 08:55:09 -0700
Why not try -kdensity-?
Take care.
Sam
On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 4:35 AM, <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks Nick,
>
> I have some 300 size values that need binning for each of my 96 smpls.
> With so many categories - the equal-width bin method will end up splitting
> certain observations into separate bins (so for example; 39.27 might end
> up in one bin, while 39.38 might end up in the next bin) depending on
> where the bin range ends.
>
> I was hoping for some code that might recognize certain size values as
> belonging to the same distribution and bin them as such.
>
> Hopefully someone might suggest some code to help me bin this data.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Mike.
>
>
>
>
> Much easier and clearer just to use equal-width bins.
>
> Nick
>
> On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 10:14 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> (Stata version 8)
>
> Statalisters,
>
> I’m collecting various size measurements from multiple samples…
>
> Smpl Size
> 01 39.38
> 01 45.26
> 01 48.81
> 02 39.27
> 02 45.28
> 02 48.94
>
> Size is normally distributed and the variance is small. I want to bin my
> sizes into categories (eg “39”, “45” and “49”), for further analysis.
> I’d like to define the range for each category by using the SD of each set
> of size observations - eg the SD of (39.38 and 39.27).
>
>
>
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