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> I need to find a test to evaluate whether the difference of
> proportions by
> groupvar is statistically significant.
> Specifically, my variable of interest is a 0-1 variable, 1
> for children that
> died before the age of 1 and 0 otherwise. I want to see if
> the proportion of
> deaths that i get for the first income quintile of the
> populations is
> different from the proportion for the 5th quintile.
> Do you know of any reference on line that i could read for
> this? And, is
> there a command on STATA that allows me to do this
> directly? (something
> equivalent to the ttest but for dichotomous variables)
First, -search- lets you search what is built into
Stata on any topic, given the apparent absence of
a manual.
In this case,
-prtest- ?
-epitab- ?
Nick
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