Hello Statalisters,
This is more a general and basic stat question than an issue with STATA but hope you
will be supportive anyway, as always.
I would like to measure the amount of variability I have for one specific measure in 2 different groups
of patients. of course I could use the standard deviation for that but I would like also to
create an index of that variability and be able to compare that index between the 2 groups with a formal stat test.
Note that in this case I am not interested in central tendency measures (mean or median) but just in a way to quantitate
the variability, present that as an index and compare among 2 (or more) groups.
How would you proceed in STATA ?
Thank you in advance,
Diego
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