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Re: st: Binning question
From
Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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Subject
Re: st: Binning question
Date
Sun, 31 Jul 2011 09:12:14 +0100
Much easier and clearer just to use equal-width bins.
Nick
On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 10:14 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:
> (Stata version 8)
>
> Statalisters,
>
> I’m collecting various size measurements from multiple samples…
>
> Smpl Size
> 01 39.38
> 01 45.26
> 01 48.81
> 02 39.27
> 02 45.28
> 02 48.94
>
> Size is normally distributed and the variance is small. I want to bin my
> sizes into categories (eg “39”, “45” and “49”), for further analysis. I’d
> like to define the range for each category by using the SD of each set of
> size observations - eg the SD of (39.38 and 39.27).
>
> Hopefully someone might suggest a practical way to achieve this.
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