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st: RE: Randomly picking observations based on a certain condition
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Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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st: RE: Randomly picking observations based on a certain condition
Date
Wed, 13 Apr 2011 20:49:26 +0100
This doesn't strike me as a precise specification. Would you be satisfied with the first random sample of 100 from the whole that includes observations from each quintile?
Why sample any way? Why divide into quintiles?
Nick
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Nikhil Srivastava
I have a dataset at the household level which contains the expenditure
details of a sample of households. The dataset also records the number
of adults within each household. I have divided this dataset into 5
quintiles based on the level of expenditure. Now I need to randomly
select a set of observations within each quintile so that the sum of
the adults for those observations comes to 100. Could somebody please
help me in writing a code for this part?
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