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Re: st: Selecting a sample to compromise between significant size and geographical dispersion
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Partho Sarkar <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Selecting a sample to compromise between significant size and geographical dispersion
Date
Thu, 15 Sep 2011 14:01:26 +0530
Thanks for the prompt response Marten! So there IS a trade-off it
seems, right? If I set a certain cut-ff level of market size, I get a
certain geographical pattern. What I want is a way to visualise this
relationship- e.g., a table or graph that would show the pairs of
cut-off size versus a dispersion "index" , so that I could then choose
the "optimal" (subjectively) cut-off. Or doesn't this make sense? By
the way, I wonder if this could be handled through Stata's Survey
commands, which I have never gone into.
Thanks again.
Partho
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 1:36 PM, Maarten Buis <[email protected]> wrote:
> What is the population that you want to generalize to? My suspicion is
> that as soon as you have defined that, you'll see that there is no
> trade-off. For example: if the population of interest is markets with
> more than median trading volume than the geographic dispersion is
> given by that constraint. Having two conflicting criteria suggests to
> me that your definition of the population is still too fuzzy.
>
>
> Hope this helps,
> Maarten
>
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