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RE: AW: st: sort of standardization
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"Lachenbruch, Peter" <[email protected]>
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"'[email protected]'" <[email protected]>
Subject
RE: AW: st: sort of standardization
Date
Wed, 12 May 2010 13:24:03 -0700
I think Rich is thinking of the number of distinct integers between 1 and 10, while the range is generally defined as the largest minus the smallest.
Tony
Peter A. Lachenbruch
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-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Nick Cox
Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2010 11:16 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: AW: st: sort of standardization
The word "range" is surely ambiguous, although the ambiguity does not
bite hard. I have no difficulty in saying both that the range is the
interval [1,10] and that the range is the difference 9. Does that differ
from Rich's view?
Nick
[email protected]
Richard Goldstein
look at it this way -- if my min is 1 and my max is 10, then the range
is 10 (it seems to me), not 9 -- i.e., I think of the range as the min
to the max *inclusive* of each endpoint; StataCorp apparently disagrees
;-)
On 5/12/10 10:46 AM, Martin Weiss wrote:
> " local range=r(max)-r(min)+1"
>
> Rich, what does the "+1" term do for the "range"? I took the
definition in
> my code from [R], page 204. Am I missing anything?
Richard Goldstein
> if I understand correctly what you want, I would do the following
within
> a -foreach- loop:
>
> summarize variable
> calculate the range from r(min) and r(max)
> divide the old variable by this calculated range inside a -gen-
>
> e.g.,
>
> foreach var of varlist .... {
> qui su `var'
> local range=r(max)-r(min)+1
> gen `var'3=`var'/`range'
> }
> On 5/12/10 10:29 AM, Ginevra Biino wrote:
>> I have to standardize many variables (in order to run PCA).
>> Besides generating the n corresponding std(varname) vars, which I
have
>> already done, I also want to generate n new variables obtained
dividing
>> each variable by its range. Can anybody help me?
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