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Re: st: Save the percentage of each response category into new variables


From   Steven Samuels <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: Save the percentage of each response category into new variables
Date   Fri, 9 Sep 2011 17:03:41 -0400

-svy tab-, with a "ci" option uses the logit transform by default and for proportions, not for percentages. It can be used for ordinary, non-survey, data by preceding the -svy tab- command with 

svyset _n


Steve


On Sep 9, 2011, at 3:42 PM, Bryan Sayer wrote:

While it is true that the mean of a 0/1 variable is equal to the proportion, the confidence interval obtained this way may go below zero or above one, which is generally an undesirable characteristic.

Some software will use a logit transformation to prevent this, but only when doing confidence intervals of actual percentages.


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