Re: st: Formula for weighted standard error

[Steven Samuels <sjsamuels@gmail.com>]

However in an introductory sampling book, the word "linearized" might  
not appear: look for the formula for the estimated SE of the mean with  
clustered, stratified, and weighted sampling.

The formula is also given in any sampling book and you can find it in  
online class notes as well.  By the way, proper spelling of our  
program is "Stata", not "STATA", as shown in the FAQ Section 9

Steve
sjsamuels@gmail.com


On Nov 17, 2010, at 2:42 PM, Stas Kolenikov wrote:

On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 1:08 PM, Emre Ozaltin <e.s.ozaltin@gmail.com>  
wrote:
> I am running the command
> "svy: mean"
>
> using pweights
>
> "svyset [pweight=X], psu(Y) strata(Z) singleunit(certainty)"
>
> Can anyone tell me the formula that STATA uses in calculating the
> standard error in this case (reported as "Linearized Std. Err.")

Two abbreviations come to mind: OMG and RTFM. The general formula is
in the manual, and so is the discussion of the singleton PSU options
(and how the variances are computed for those options), although you
might have to spend a minute or two locating it if it is not right
there in the entry for -svyset-.



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