Dear Neil:
Thank you for your reply. I looked at -nptrend- and am not sure that this command will solve my problem. It seems that I don't have a groupvar but two variables. By similarity with -prtest- or -ztest-, the command I am looking for could be written this way:
command var1 = var2, unpaired.
But I might be wrong in the way I try to solve my problem.
Best regards
Herv�
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On 4/11/06, Herve STOLOWY <[email protected]> wrote:
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> I would like to test the equality of proportions of two variables which are not binary. Each variable can have four values (0, 1, 2 and 3). (To be more precise, the original variable is the same but are applied to two different populations, the total sample and a restricted sample. I created two different variables. With -tabulate-, I get easily the frequencies of both variables).
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> I can't use -prtest- and -ztest- because these two commands require, to my knowledge, binary variables.
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> My comparison should work on unpaired data.
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> I searched in Stata on "proportions" but did not find any command for that purpose. I missed maybe something. Would you have an idea?
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How about a trend-test to detect differences between the two groups
(sample and restricted). In Stata this is implemented as the command
-nptrend-
Neil
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