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Re: st: How to assign distribution of one variable to the other variable
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Austin Nichols <[email protected]>
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Re: st: How to assign distribution of one variable to the other variable
Date
Wed, 30 May 2012 11:21:18 -0400
meenakshi beri <[email protected]>:
You can reweight using the propensity score.
See e.g. http://www.stata-journal.com/sjpdf.html?articlenum=st0136_1
Or rake if you want to match more than one marginal distribution:
view "http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/s/survwgt.hlp";
view "http://web.missouri.edu/~kolenikovs/stata/ipfraking.sthlp";
On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 4:32 PM, meenakshi beri
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello Statalist Users,
>
> I am working on racial disparity. I am using rank and replace method which matches individuals based on their rank of health status and transforms the distribution of health status conditional on white race to equal the health status distribution conditional on black race.
>
> I am looking for an appropriate way to transform the distribution of white's health status to be equal to the distribution of blacks' health status in Stata. Any help would be highly appreciated.
>
> Thanks and regards,
> Meenakshi
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