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Re: st: How do I obtain conf. intervals for differences between percentiles of two different distributions?
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Tirthankar Chakravarty <[email protected]>
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Re: st: How do I obtain conf. intervals for differences between percentiles of two different distributions?
Date
Wed, 14 Apr 2010 11:14:29 +0530
See advice previously given here:
http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2009-06/msg00376.html
This produces bootstrap confidence interval around the difference of
percentiles.
T
2010/4/14 Liliana Olarte <[email protected]>:
> Dear Statalist :
>
> I am trying to estimate the wage gap between females and males by
> percentiles. However, I would like to estimate conf. intervals for
> the difference between the percentiles of the two distributions. ¿How
> can I do this? I know cendif command does not work since cendif is
> ment for computing confidence intervals, not for differences between
> percentiles, but for percentile differences.
>
> This is the procedure I did for percentile(75) :
>
> - centile log_hourly_wage if gender==1, centile(75) normal
> - centile log_hourly_wage if gender==2, centile(75) normal
>
> Results for gender==1
> --Normal, based on observed centiles --
> Variable | Obs Percentile Centile [95% Conf. Interval]
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> loghourlywage | 2956 75 8.334871 8.291912 8.377831
>
>
> Results for gender==2
> --Normal, based on observed centiles --
> Variable | Obs Percentile Centile [95% Conf. Interval]
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> loghourlywage | 1415 75 8.477972 8.412637 8.543307
>
>
> gap (75th centile) = 8.477972 - 8.334871=0.1431
>
> These are the results when I use cendif :
>
> Percent Pctl_Dif Minimum Maximum
> 75 .97528172 .90964651 1.0403433
>
> As it can be seen from the results above, cendif is not the appropiate
> command to use here.
>
> Regards,
> Liliana
>
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