Arnold,
Thank you for your insights -- I didn't think about that... The reason why I
wanted to do this in the first place was mainly for presentation-purposes: that
way, I could have the means of the different variables in the rows with the
various sub-samples in the columns of the table and then compare them with the
full sample means of the variables, which would then be in the right-most
column. That was a great idea (or so I thought) but if it doesn't make sense
conceptually, then...
Cheers,
Niels-Hugo
"Arnold Levinson"
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09/22/2003 10:03 AM
Please respond to
statalist
The difficulty here is that the two means are correlated because the mean of
the whole includes the subgroup. So perhaps it doesn't really make sense to
do this. A more common approach is to test each subgroup against the
remainder of the whole. If multiple such tests are used, a correction like
Scheffe or Bonferroni might also be appropriate.
Arnold H. Levinson, Ph.D.
Associate Scientist, Center for Behavioral and Community Studies
AMC Cancer Research Center
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Assistant Professor of Preventive Medicine and Biometrics
University of Colorado School of Medicine
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>
> Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 00:33:20 -0400
> From: [email protected]
> Subject: st: Testing means of subgroups vs mean of full sample using
svymean
>
> Dear Stata-listers,
>
> I am probably missing something here but after spending quite some time
now
> trying to figure this out, I reluctantly decided to throw the towel in the
> ring...
>
> Specifically, I want to test the mean(s) of sub-samples vs the mean of the
full
> sample using the "svymean"-command. For example, say that I am interested
in
> the mean income of literates vs the mean income for the sample as a whole.
I
> can test the means of the literate and illiterate sub-groups against each
other
> by, say (following the "Survey Data" manual for Stata 8, p. 16), where the
> variable literate is dummy-coded:
>
> . svymean income, by(literate)
> . lincom [income]1 - [income]0
>
> But how do I test the mean income for literates, say, against the mean
income
> for the entire sample?
>
> Thank you very much in advance!!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Niels-Hugo
>
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