RE: st: how to find the integral for a portion of a normal distribution.

["Buzz Burhans" <buzzb3@earthlink.net>]

Let me try again, I am sorry I am so dense here.

Suppose I have an intervention applied to cows with a demonstrated mean milk
yield response of +2.05 liters, sd 1.74.

Suppose I am interested a 1 liter cut point.  I know how to find the
proportion of responses at or below the 1 liter response; and the proportion
of responses at or above the one liter response.  This is what you are doing
here, or it can be done with a z score.

My question is, if the response is normally distributed, given n cows, how
many total liters were included or accumulated in the only responses below 1
liter, and how many total liters were accumulated in only the responses at
or above 1 liter.  (Negative responses are possible). My interest is in the
total liters, not the fraction of the total population either above or below
the cutpoint.

This is not the same as the proportion of responders in either category; it
is the total accumulated response above and below my cut point.

I am off to a meeting, so thanks for any further responses - I won't be able
to see them until this evening.

Buzz



Buzz Burhans, Ph.D. 

Dairy-Tech Group
So. Albany, VT / Twin Falls ID

Phone: 802-755-6842
Cell: 208-320-0829
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Email: buzzb3@earthlink.net

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
[mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of Jeph Herrin
Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2010 10:15 AM
To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
Subject: Re: st: how to find the integral for a portion of a normal
distribution.

The total area under any normal curve is always 1, so you just need
to count obs:

  drawnorm x , means(2.02) sds(1.75) n(100000) clear
  gen byte lessthan1=x<=1
  sum lessthan1

The mean value of -lessthan1- is the area under the curve
to the left of 1.

hth,
Jeph


Buzz Burhans wrote:
> My weak math skills are showing up here - 
> 
> For demonstration purposes, I have generated a set of 100,000 observations
> with a normal distribution, mean 2.02, SD 1.74 and visualized this data
and
> the portion of observations above 1  with a histogram
> 
> drawnorm x , means(2.02) sds(1.75) n(100,000) clear
> hist, xline(1)
> 
> I also computed the proportion of the observations <=1 from the Z score.
> 
> What I don't know how to do in Stata is find the integral for the
> proportions of the distribution above and below 1.  
> 
> How can I determine those two integrals in Stata?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
> 
> Buzz Burhans, Ph.D. 
> 
> Dairy-Tech Group
> So. Albany, VT / Twin Falls ID
> 
> Phone: 802-755-6842
> Cell: 208-320-0829
> Fax VT: 802-755-6842
> Fax ID: 208-735-1289
> 
> Email: buzzb3@earthlink.net
> 
> 
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