st: New package -dsweight- on SSC

["Roger B. Newson" <r.newson@imperial.ac.uk>]

Thanks yet again to Kit Baum, a new package -dsweight- is now available 
for download from SSC. In Stata, use the -ssc- package to do this.

The -dsweight- package is described as below on my website. It 
calculates direct-standardization weights, which the user can then input 
as -pweights- to estimation commands to estimate directly-standardized 
ragression or rank parameters.

Best wishes

Roger


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Roger B Newson BSc MSc DPhil
Lecturer in Medical Statistics
Respiratory Epidemiology and Public Health Group
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TITLE
      dsweight: Generate direct standardization weights

DESCRIPTION/AUTHOR(S)
      dsweight generates direct standardization weights for input as
      pweights to estimation commands, standardizing the joint
      distribution of a list of standardization variables to a standard
      target population, possibly within groups defined by value
      combinations of a list of group variables.  A direct
      standardization weight is defined as a ratio between the frequency
      of a combination of values of standardization variables in a target
      standard population and the frequency of the same combination of
      values of standardization variables in the sample or group.  The
      standard target population may be the full sample, or a by-group
      defined by a combination of values of by-variables, or it may be
      defined using a dataset with 1 observation per combination of the
      group variables, and data on the frequencies of these combinations
      in the standard target population.

      Author: Roger Newson
      Distribution-Date: 18january2012
      Stata-Version: 10

INSTALLATION FILES                                  (click here to install)
      dsweight.ado
      dsweight.sthlp
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