Waldo, Daniel R. (CMS/ORDI) <[email protected]> is interested in using
-test- after -svy: tabulate- but is concerned about getting different results
when options -row- and -se- are specified compared to when just the -row-
option is specified:
> I am perplexed by the results of some tabulations I ran in Stata10.
> Specifically, I am testing for the equality of two cells ... almost
> identical to the situation described at
> http://www.stata.com/statlist/archive/2005-02/msg00554.html
>
> The commands
> svy: tab x1 x2 , row
> svy: tab x1 x2 , row se
>
> produce different variance-covariance matrices in e(V). The overall
> Pearson results appear identical.
>
> So, when I issue the command
> test _b[p11]=_b[p71]
>
> the first command produces results that I believe to be simply wrong -
> visual inspection of the two cell values being tested overwhelming
> suggests no statistically significant difference yet the F value
> produced is huge. The second command produces a very small F value.
>
> Having thought that the se option was merely for display purposes, I
> would appreciate any thoughts on these results, or on better ways to
> accomplish my task.
The documentation for the -se- option in -[SVY] svy: tabulate twoway- states
the following:
se requests that the standard errors of cell proportions (the
default), weighted counts, or row or column proportions be
displayed. When se (or ci, deff, or deft) is specified, only
one of cell, count, row, or column can be selected. The
standard error computed is the standard error of the one
selected.
The last sentence points out that
. svy: tab x1 x2, row se
results in -e(V)- containing the variances for the row proportions, whereas
. svy: tab x1 x2, row
calculates the row proportions but uses the default setting (cell proportions)
for computing -e(V)-. Note that consequently, the following command
combination results in an error:
. svy: tab x1 x2, row
(output omitted)
. svy: tab, row se
standard errors are only available for cells to compute row standard
errors, rerun command with row and se options
r(111);
--Jeff
[email protected]
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