Sounds like you need -poisson- to me, but if you really want to
compare quantiles, read -help qreg- and try, say, -bsqreg wait if
simulated==0- to get standard errors on the median wait in real data,
or -bsqreg wait simulated- to compare the median of the real data to
the simulated data.
On 3/8/06, daniel waxman <[email protected]> wrote:
> I am trying to compare two populations with skewed distributions--queuing
> times for real patients, and queuing times for simulated patients (the
> output of a discrete event simulation program).
>
> I am most interested in comparing the 50th, 75th, 90th, and 95th percentiles
> between the real and simulated patients, and am struggling with a way to
> describe this.
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