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st: RE: Stata 12: does new xtmixed make -pwigls- obsolete?


From   Nick Cox <[email protected]>
To   "'[email protected]'" <[email protected]>
Subject   st: RE: Stata 12: does new xtmixed make -pwigls- obsolete?
Date   Thu, 11 Aug 2011 22:36:30 +0100

What's -pwigls-, please? 

Nick 
[email protected] 

Carter Rees


Stata 12 now allows the use of both level 1 and level 2 weights in
multilevel models.  I am wondering what this means for the -pwigls-
command.

A bit of preliminary analysis reveals the following.

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use http://www.stata-press.com/data/r12/pisa2000, clear

xtmixed isei female high_school college one_for both_for test_lang
[pw=w_fstuwt] || id_school:, pweight(wnrschbw) pwscale(size)


*** Level 1 weights using scaling method 2 Pfeffermann et al (1998)
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society B 60, 23-56.

egen sumw = sum(w_fstuwt), by(id_school)

egen nj = count(female), by(id_school)
gen pwt1s2 =  w_fstuwt *nj / sumw

xtmixed isei female high_school college one_for both_for test_lang
[pw=pwt1s2] || id_school:, pweight(wnrschbw)

*********************************************************************.

The output produced by the first -xtmixed- model comes from page 345 of
"STATA
LONGITUDINAL DATA/PANEL DATA REFERENCE MANUAL RELEASE 12" and is the same
as using -pwigls- level 1 weight adjustment method 2 as suggested by
Pfeffermann et al (1998).

I am wondering if the newest version of -xtmixed makes -pwigls obsolete.
Also, I am looking to trade emails with anyone who has experience using
-gllamm in conjunction with pwigls- when modeling the Add Health
data.


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