st: New version of -dsweight- on SSC

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

Thanks once again to Kit Baum, a new version of the -dsweight- package 
is now available for download from SSC. In Stata, use the -ssc- command 
to do this, or -adoupdate- if the user already has an old version of 
-dsweight-.

The -dsweight- package is described as below on my website. The new 
version adds a second module -scdsweight- for calculating scenario 
direct standardization weights, for use with the recently-updated 
-scsomersd- package, which you can also download from SSC. These 
scenario direct standardization weights can be used with -scsomersd- to 
calculate population attributable risks. It also adds a few additional 
examples in the on-line help, illustrating how direct standardization 
weights can be used with rank statistics by inputting them as pweights 
to modules of the -somersd- package (also downloadable from SSC).

Best wishes

Roger


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Roger B Newson BSc MSc DPhil
Lecturer in Medical Statistics
Respiratory Epidemiology and Public Health Group
National Heart and Lung Institute
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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: 01february2012
      Stata-Version: 10

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