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Re: st: weights
From
Nick Cox <[email protected]>
To
"[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject
Re: st: weights
Date
Tue, 14 May 2013 23:27:57 +0100
Your general questions on weights are best addressed by starting with
the sections on weights in [U] and then looking at the [SVY] manual:
these manuals are included as .pdf documents with modern versions of
Stata.
I doubt that even sampling experts on this list (I am not one) can
make authoritative statements about your data from what you tell us.
Please do read http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/resources/statalist-faq/#others
before your next post.
Nick
[email protected]
On 14 May 2013 23:15, Cheng, Hsu-Chih <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear Statalist veterans,
>
> Stata offers four options of weights: frequency weights, analytic weights, sampling weights, and importance weights. Winship and Radbill (1994) suggest that un-weighted regression is preferred because it is less biased and more consistent than the weighted analysis, but their discussion is applicable only to sampling weights. If the values of weights in my data center around 1 (some values are smaller than 1; some are greater), is it possible that these are still sampling weights? Or, if the weights in the data are analytic or importance weights, what are the properties of using these weights in regression analysis? Any suggestion or direction to read more on this issue is highly appreciate.
>
> Best,
>
> Simon
>
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