Re: st: RE: return results from dstdize

[Rosa Gini <rosa.gini@arsanita.toscana.it>]

spec_stand, a small ado file working as an interface for dstdize, is 
available on ssc, and makes it much more natural producing lists of 
standardised/unadjusted rates with standard errors.

on the other side, distrate, also avilable on ssc, does the same thing 
but does not lie on dstdize, in particular it computes confidence 
intervals in a different way.

hope this helps,

			rosa

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>
> Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 06:35:58 +0000 (GMT)
> From: Maarten buis <maartenbuis@yahoo.co.uk>
> Subject: Re: st: RE: return results from dstdize
>
> - -- West Joe wrote:
>> I have carried out my dstdize command but would like to get hold of
>> the standard errors of the adjusted rates, either displayed or
>> saved. I am using version 9.2. I have tried
>>
>> dstdize ndths pops agegrp, by(year) using(european_pop.dta)
>>
>> return list
>>
>>
>> The standardisation goes ok but the returned results look like the
>> output below. I was expecting the r(se) matrix to be a macro, and to
>> be the standard error I am looking for, according to the online help
>> but it seems not to be the case.
>
> The standard errors are not stored in a macro but in a matrix called
> r(se), so after -dstdize- you can access them using matrix commands,
> for instance -matrix list r(se)-. One of the first steps I do when
> dealing with these matrices is to create a new matrix without the
> brackets in its name: -matrix se = r(se)-.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Maarten
>
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