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Re: st: svyintreg vs. intreg with pweights
Sergiy Radyakin <[email protected]> wrote in that -svyintreg- is
reporting an 'initial values invalid' error message when specified with a
mean-only model. Richard Williams <[email protected]> replied with
some suggestions for getting around the problem.
> I have survey data on incomes (in brackets) and pweights are provided as
> well.
> I would like to find the average income. To do this, I regress the interval
> ends on a constant using -intreg-
>
> This command works:
>
> intreg inc1 inc2 [pw=my_weight_variable]
>
> This syntax does not work:
>
> version 8
> svyset [pw=my_weight_variable]
> svyintreg inc1 inc2
>
> (fails after -svyintreg- with the error message "initial values invalid").
> There are no zero or missing weights (if it is of any importance).
Sergiy found a bug in -svyintreg-'s initial values logic.
-svyintreg- will be fixed in the next ado-file update.
--Jeff
[email protected]
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