Re: st: RE: Using weight in summarize command

[Richard Williams <Richard.A.Williams.5@ND.edu>]

At 05:16 PM 12/5/2007, Nick Cox wrote:
> . help summarize
> . summarize wage [aw=weight]
You can also use the -mean- command.  -mean- supports pweights, works 
with the svy prefix, ereturns results, and has assorted other 
options, which may be useful for some purposes.  e.g.

. mean wage [pw=weight]

Mean estimation                     Number of obs    =       9

--------------------------------------------------------------
             |       Mean   Std. Err.     [95% Conf. Interval]
-------------+------------------------------------------------
        wage |   13315.55   3984.478      4127.332    22503.78
--------------------------------------------------------------



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