Re: st: ipfweight command. Clarification of population margins

[Johanna Birnir <jkbirnir@gmail.com>]

Stas,

Thank you I will try that.

Johanna

On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 3:07 PM, Stas Kolenikov <skolenik@gmail.com> wrote:
> I wrote -ipfraking- package that might be easier to use.
>
> On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 3:36 AM, Johanna Birnir <jkbirnir@umd.edu> wrote:
>> Dear statalisters,
>>
>> I would like to use the ipfweight command to rake my data but I don't
>> understand what population margins I am supposed to list.  In the help
>> example there are more margins listed than variables to be weighted.
>> Also the margins in the example are fractions while the variables to
>> be weighted are nominal.
>>
>> Thanks for your consideration, Johanna
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