One further suggestion for -binsm-...
If you add an option to pass additional options to -egen-, then weighted
means (and various other things) could be achieved by using a
user-written -egen- function (e.g. _GWTMEAN).
David
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From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Nick Cox
Sent: 14 February 2006 11:36
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: st: RE: RE: RE: summing across bins
I've updated the program to Stata >=8 graphics, but the limitation to no
support of weights remains. This will appear via a future issue of the
Stata Journal.
In essence -binsm- is a wrapper for -egen- as far as calculation of
summaries is concerned.
As established in this thread, -egen-
does not support weights in general. I can't think of a work-around that
would not be ad hoc, awkward, and very time-consuming.
Supporting -egen- may appear to be bad
programming style, as sometimes deprecated by myself among others. In
this case, it is a way of providing a lot of flexibility, including
support in principle for user-written functions, with minimal
programming effort.
Nick
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Lenna Nepomnyaschy
> Hi Nick,
>
> using the binsm command with weights would solve all my problems. It
> would be so great if it were possible. I just downloaded it yesterday
> and it works beautifully otherwise.
> On Mon, 13 Feb 2006, Nick Cox wrote:
>
> > Also, on -binsm-: the latest public domain version is 1.1.0 for
> > Stata 4 in STB-37.
> >
> > I didn't know anyone ever used it.
> > I will see if an update can be done quickly.
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