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Re: st: subpop() and over() with survey mean estimation using SDR weights
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Sam Schulhofer-Wohl <[email protected]>
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Re: st: subpop() and over() with survey mean estimation using SDR weights
Date
Wed, 1 Feb 2012 09:19:17 -0600
Jeff,
Got it. Thank you again for the followup.
Sam
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 9:52 AM, Jeff Pitblado, StataCorp LP
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Sam Schulhofer-Wohl <[email protected]> had a follow-up question:
> > Is -svy bootstrap- with -bsn(4)- equivalent to SDR weights in all cases?
> > For example, if I am using the IPUMS version of the Current Population
> > Survey with
> >
> > svyset [iw=wtsupp], sdrweight(repwtp1-repwtp160) vce(sdr)
> >
> > can I instead do
> >
> > svyset [iw=wtsupp], bsrweight(repwtp1-repwtp160) bsn(4) vce(bootstrap)
> >
> > (Comparing the formulas on pages 186 and 190 of [SVY] suggests that the two
> > settings are indeed always equivalent, but official confirmation would be
> > nice.)
> While the replicate weights are different between the two methods, the formula
> used to compute the VCE from the replicated parameter estimates is equivalent
> between the SDR method and the bootstrap with a multiplier of 4.
> - --Jeff
> [email protected]
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Sam Schulhofer-Wohl
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