Thank you all for your input. I am currently modifying an ado file from
Paul V which I believe will work well. And I will also work with the ado
file sent by Tirthankar. I will also review the doc sent by Peter
Lachenbruch.
Thank you all for the help.
Carl
Philadelphia
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tirthankar Chakravarty" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, February 01, 2010 12:00 PM
Subject: Re: st: RE: RE: RE: Fw: Calculating a confidence interval for
population variance based upon sample.
There is some literature on the sampling distribution of the sample
variance, where the parent distribution is highly non-normal,
particularly, this:
http://www.jstor.org/pss/3314982
The basic, chi2-based confidence interval can be calculated as below.
/***** Compute the sampling distribution of the sample variance *****/
clear*
sysuse auto
// assuming that the variable is normally distributed
scalar alpha = .05
sum price
di "The " 1-alpha " percent confidence interval for the sampling
variance: " r(Var) " is " ///
"[" ((`r(N)'-1)/invchi2(`r(N)'-1,1-alpha/2))*`r(Var)' ", "
((`r(N)'-1)/invchi2(`r(N)'-1,alpha/2))*`r(Var)' "]. "
/***** Compute the sampling distribution of the sample variance *****/
T
2010/2/1 Visintainer PhD, Paul <[email protected]>:
> Rosner's approach is based on the chi-square, but he does note that it is
> applicable only for normally-distributed samples.
>
> -p
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Lachenbruch,
> Peter
> Sent: Monday, February 01, 2010 11:36 AM
> To: '[email protected]'
> Subject: st: RE: RE: Fw: Calculating a confidence interval for population
> variance based upon sample.
>
> This is usually based on the chi-squared distribution - but it is rarely
> used because the variance is affected by a) outliers, b) distribution. I
> don't have my Rosner handy so I'm uncertain if it's the procedure he
> recommends.
> I would propose a couple of alternatives:
> 1. find a bootstrap confidence interval for the variance using percentiles
> or accelerated bootstrap.
> 2. Abandon the chi-square and get estimates of the percentiles of interest
> (e.g., 0.025, 0.05, 0.1 and their complements) with centile. This may have
> a problem if sample size is small.
> After finding the confidence interval for the variance, you can find the
> standard deviation easily enough
>
> Tony
>
> Peter A. Lachenbruch
> Department of Public Health
> Oregon State University
> Corvallis, OR 97330
> Phone: 541-737-3832
> FAX: 541-737-4001
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Visintainer
> PhD, Paul
> Sent: Monday, February 01, 2010 7:15 AM
> To: '[email protected]'
> Subject: st: RE: Fw: Calculating a confidence interval for population
> variance based upon sample.
>
> Carl,
>
> There is a procedure in Rosner [Rosner, B. "Fundamentals of Biostatistics,
> (6th ed.), Duxbury, Press (The Thompson Company): Belmont, CA, 2006, pgs.
> 199-201.]
>
> If you send me your email, I can pass along a "not-ready-for-prime-time"
> .ado that I use for the calculation.
>
> -p
>
>
>
> ___________________________________
> Paul F. Visintainer, PhD
> Baystate Medical Center
> Springfield, MA 01199
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Carl
> Mastropaolo
> Sent: Monday, February 01, 2010 9:47 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: st: Fw: Calculating a confidence interval for population variance
> based upon sample.
>
> Hi
>
> I have STATA10.
>
> I can not figure out how to calculate a simple confidence interval for a
> population variance
> based upon sample data. STATA will calculate the sample standard
> deviation,
> but I can not figure out how to compute a confidence interval for the
> population standard deviation. Is there a command which will do this?
>
> Any help?
>
> Thanx,
> Carl
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