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Re: st: Testing whether two estimated survey means are statistically different
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Austin Nichols <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Testing whether two estimated survey means are statistically different
Date
Thu, 20 Oct 2011 10:39:10 -0400
Nick--
The poster (Andrew Wade) has survey data, though.
In survey data, using a cluster-robust variance estimator, the two are
identical.
webuse nhanes2, clear
svy: reg bpsystol black, sformat(%7.6f)
qui svy: mean bpsystol, over(black)
lincom _b[1]-_b[0], sformat(%7.6f)
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 10:00 AM, Nick Winter <[email protected]> wrote:
> There is a subtle difference between -svy: reg- and -svy: mean- followed by
> -lincom-. The former corresponds to a t-test with the assumption that the
> variances in the two populations are equal; the latter corresponds (almost
> exactly) to a t-test without that assumption. The "almost exactly" is due
> to a difference in calculation of degrees of freedom.
>
> Leaving aside -svy-, we can see the slightly different standard errors:
>
> sysuse auto
> reg mpg foreign
> ttest mpg, over(foreign)
>
> mean: mpg, over(foreign)
> lincom _b[Domestic]-_b[Foreign]
> ttest mpg, over(foreign) unequal
>
>
> - Nick Winter
>
> On 10/20/2011 4:58 AM, Maarten Buis wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 11:33 PM, Andrew Wade<[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Presumably the regression approach, where you have a single dummy for the
>>> sub-population, will be identical (or near identical) to:
>>> - estimating svy: mean with over command (ie. mean for sub-population,
>>> and not in sub-population).
>>> - lincom after svy: mean.
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