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Re: st: graph results of bitest stratified with by(var)


From   Nick Cox <[email protected]>
To   "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject   Re: st: graph results of bitest stratified with by(var)
Date   Thu, 23 Jan 2014 18:22:23 +0000

I see, but you can just calculate that from the -statsby- results.

Nick
[email protected]


On 23 January 2014 18:19, Richard Goldstein <[email protected]> wrote:
> 1. Michael, if you look at -h levelsof- there is an example showing its
> use with -foreach-
>
> 2. Nick, I did not suggest -statsby- because Michael asked for something
> that is not in the return list (r(k)/r(N)) and I don't think that this
> is allowed with -statsby-, but maybe I'm wrong about that?
>
> Rich
>
> On 1/23/14, 1:07 PM, Nick Cox wrote:
>> -search foreach- does exactly what you ask, namely point to sources on
>> -foreach-.
>>
>> But -help statsby- does even better.
>>
>> Here's a dopey example.
>>
>> sysuse auto, clear
>> statsby N=r(N) k=r(k) p_l=r(p_l) p_u=r(p_u) , by(rep78): bitest
>> foreign=.2
>> list
>>
>> Nick
>> [email protected]
>>
>> On 23 January 2014 17:55, Michael McCulloch <[email protected]>
>>
>>> Thank you Richard, that's exactly what I'm wanting to achieve.
>>> I understand now that -bysort- clears the scalars at each re-call.
>>>
>>> Can you point me to primers so I can learn how to wrap this into a -foreach- / -levelsof- loop?
>>
>>
>> On Jan 23, 2014, at 5:45 AM, Richard Goldstein wrote:
>>>
>>>> If I understand what you want correctly, you cannot do it with bysort
>>>> because each time you do the test the set of returned values (the
>>>> "r()"'s) will be replaced and the old ones lost
>>>>
>>>> you can do this within a -foreach- loop (you may need -levelsof- first)
>>>> in which you quietly do the -bitest- and then list your results for that
>>>> test and then do the next -bitest-, etc.
>>>>
>>>> here is an example of how to use the returned values:
>>>>
>>>> . sysuse auto
>>>>
>>>> . bitest foreign=.2
>>>>
>>>>    Variable |        N   Observed k   Expected k   Assumed p   Observed p
>>>> -------------+------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>     foreign |       74         22         14.8       0.20000      0.29730
>>>>
>>>>  Pr(k >= 22)           = 0.029904  (one-sided test)
>>>>  Pr(k <= 22)           = 0.984075  (one-sided test)
>>>>  Pr(k <= 7 or k >= 22) = 0.041800  (two-sided test)
>>>> r; t=0.09 8:39:38
>>>>
>>>> . di r(N) _skip(2) r(P_p) _skip(2) r(k)/r(N) _skip(2) r(p)
>>>> 74  .2  .2972973  .04179963
>>>>
>>>> I have not put headers on the columns and have not done several other
>>>> things you might want (e.g., print format for results) but this should
>>>> give the basic idea, assuming I have correctly understood you
>>
>> On 1/23/14, 12:57 AM, Michael McCulloch wrote:
>>
>>>>> I am using bitest for a two-sided test on whether the mean of varB is different than 0.2, and testing on each level of varA:
>>>>>      bysort varA:    bitest varB=.2
>>>>>
>>>>> varA has ~30 values. I wish to display these in a table (showing N, observed p,
>>>> expected p, and the two-sided p-value), without manual cut-and-paste, as
>>>> the test
>>>> will be used to monitor an ongoing training program.
>>>>>
>>>>> I note that the results of bitest are stored as:
>>>>>      r(N)           number N of trials
>>>>>      r(P_p)         assumed probability p of success
>>>>>      r(k)           observed number k of successes
>>>>>      r(p_l)         lower one-sided p-value
>>>>>      r(p_u)         upper one-sided p-value
>>>>>      r(p)           two-sided p-value
>>>>>
>>>>> However, I do not know how one uses these r(**) values. Can anyone suggest how one
>>>> would go about this?
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