I need to stratify medians by the outcome and get the percentiles, what is
the syntax for this?
I have a term "weight" which is a continuous variable
Outcome is categorical (treatment/no treatment)
Weight is not normally distributed
I wanted to make a table with the median weight of tissue for those who
received treatment and those who did not...
Thanks!
karem
On 11/27/08 8:46 PM, "Kit Baum" <[email protected]> wrote:
> < >
> Mandy said
>
> 1) In step 3. above I replace the incorrect commands with the correct
> ones, and then re-run the commands to update the data sets created
> 2) I append some extra commands to the existent do files to revise.
> That is, the initial incorrect commands remain in the do-files.
>
> So do files for these two ways seem like as follows:
> (1)
> ------------------------------------------------
> *do file
>
> command after revise
> ------------------------------------------------
> 2)
> ------------------------------------------------
> . . . . .*do file
> initial commands(Which need to revise)
> ..............................
> extra command to revise
> -----------------------------------------------
> Which way is better? How should I decide this? This question is
> important to me since it's helpful for me to get good habit of
> managing data sets and do files.
>
>
>
>
> Personally, if I want to keep track of what turned out to be the wrong
> commands (perhaps so I don't do that the next time!) I would use a
> variation on the second strategy: copy the wrong commands, comment
> them out, and correct their copies. That is, don't make all the
> corrections at the bottom, because that will only work if the
> incorrect variables are not used in any intermediate calculations.
>
> I have not seen it, but with a ringing endorsement from Bill Gould at
> FNASUG, the new book on "The Workflow of Data Analysis in Stata" by
> Scott Long (Stata Press; see Stata's website) might be a good
> investment.
>
> Kit Baum, Boston College Economics and DIW Berlin
> http://ideas.repec.org/e/pba1.html
> An Introduction to Modern Econometrics Using Stata:
> http://www.stata-press.com/books/imeus.html
>
>
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