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Re: st: aweights for overall data when analyzing subsets of data
From
Friedrich Huebler <[email protected]>
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Re: st: aweights for overall data when analyzing subsets of data
Date
Sun, 27 Mar 2011 23:28:21 -0400
Laura,
The solution to your problem is in the Statalist archive.
http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2008-08/msg00987.html
Friedrich
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 3:55 PM, Laura Grant <[email protected]> wrote:
> I am scatter-plotting data for two subsets where I also care about a
> third dimension, such a population. I want to represent population
> using relative sizing of the symbols, by -aweight-
>
> However, running
>
> twoway (scatter y x [w= population] if use<50, msymbol(Oh)) (scatter
> y x [w= population] if use>=50, msymbol(Oh) )
>
> produces two subsets of the data in the same graph, but it splits up
> the weighting calculation so that the two sets' symbol sizes are NOT
> comparable. I would like to have the weights be over the entire data
> set. How? I think I should be able to -gen- the aweights as a variable
> then maybe tell Stata these are iweights?
>
> Thanks, Laura
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