Thank you Nick, I should have realized that it was an
estimation command.
Regards,
Ricardo.
--- Nick Winter <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> -svytotal- is an e-class command.
>
> Type -ereturn list- and you will see what it
> returns. (And then -mat
> list e(b) and mat list e(V), or whatever you are
> interested in.
>
> -return list- is showing you some intermediate
> results returned by a
> subroutine of -svytotal-.
>
> Nick WInter
>
>
> At 01:12 PM 9/9/2005, you wrote:
>
> >Dear all,
> >
> >I am not sure if this has been reported but when I
> use
> >-svytotal- in Stata 8.2, the saved results do not
> >match the output:
> >
> >. svytotal nons
> >
> >Survey total estimation
> >
> >pweight: discwt
> >Number of obs = 7521922
> >Strata: stratum
> >Number of strata = 623
> >PSU: hospid
> >Number of PSUs = 10394
> >
> >Population size = 37192136
> >
>
>------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Total | Estimate Std. Err. [95% Conf.
> >Interval] Deff
>
>---------+--------------------------------------------------------------------
> > nons | 37153514 395094 3.64e+07
> >3.79e+07 818258.6
>
>------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> >. return list
> >
> >scalars:
> > r(N) = 7521922
> > r(N_strata) = 1
> > r(N_psu) = 7521922
> > r(N_pop) = 7521922
> > r(estimate) = .9987735847300729
> > r(Var) = 1.62845525174e-10
> > r(Var_srs) = 1.62845525165e-10
> > r(errcode) = 0
> >
> >-svytotal- report a population estimate of over 37
> >million and saved results r(estimate) is less than
> 1.
> >What am I missing?
> >
> >Thank you,
> >Ricardo.
> >
> >Ricardo Ovaldia, MS
> >Statistician
> >Oklahoma City, OK
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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