Stata knows different types of weights. Most often people should use
either pweights or fweights, aweights are only appropriate in very
specialized situations. See: section 11.1.6 in the User's guide for
more. -logit- allows for fweights and pweights (and iweights).
-- Maarten
--- L S <[email protected]> wrote:
> I am trying to run a weighted logit regression in STATA.
>
> It is easy to notice that weights are not allowed by the basic logit
> command (STATA gives the error 'aweight not allowed'). I have been
> told about the possibility of referring to a past version of STATA
> which supports aweights:
>
> version 9.0
> logit y x [aw=w]
>
> I am somewhat suspect though that the estimates produced by the above
> program are accurate. For example, if the weights are chosen as to
> correct for bias from a choice-based sample, so that there is a
> different weight for y=1 and for y=0, the estimates of the weighted
> and unweighted unweighted logit should be the same except for the
> intercept term. STATA does not seem to be producing this result.
>
> Should the above weighted logit be correct? If not, how can I do one
> correctly?
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Department of Social Research Methodology
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
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1081 HV Amsterdam
The Netherlands
visiting address:
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http://home.fsw.vu.nl/m.buis/
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