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Re: st: Not sure how to interpret -somersd- results
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"Roger B. Newson" <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Not sure how to interpret -somersd- results
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Thu, 03 Oct 2013 16:58:38 +0100
Yes. We can say that, for 3-5 years children, the 2006 calories from
non-staples may or may not stochastically dominante 1996 calories from
non-staples. And the Somers' D for this stochastic dominance is.206,
with a 95% CI from -.094 to .472.
I presume that the observations correspond to individual children,
sampled independently from each district in each year. I hope I am right.
Best wishes
Roger
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On 03/10/2013 16:39, Jain, Monica (HarvestPlus) wrote:
Thanks so much Roger for the clarification on interpretation and also for the suggestion on using asymmetric confidence intervals. I am also looking at the distribution of calories from non-staples (calnstp) for children 6-23 months and 3-5 years separately,. I run the following command for height z-scores and calories from non-staple for 3-5 years children. For calories from non-staples for 6-23 months, I also run a similar command, which is not shown for brevity sake.
somersd year haz calnstp , cluster(district) transf(z) tdist
and I get the following results
Somers' D with variable: year
Transformation: Fisher's z
Valid observations: 627
Number of clusters: 4
Degrees of freedom: 3
Symmetric 95% CI for transformed Somers' D
(Std. Err. adjusted for 4 clusters in dist)
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Jackknife
year | Coef. Std. Err. t P>|t| [95% Conf. Interval]
-------------+----------------------------------------------------------------
Haz (3-5 years) | .3743973 .049804 7.52 0.005 .2158966 .532898
calnstp (3-5 years) | .3376242 .0966604 3.49 0.040 .0300076 .6452408
calnstp (6-23 months) | .2093922 .095348 2.20 0.116 -.0940477 .512832
-------------+----------------------------------------------------------------
Asymmetric 95% CI for untransformed Somers' D
Somers_D Minimum Maximum
Haz (3-5 years) .35783201 .21260359 .48759325
calnstp (3-5 years) .32535471 .02999857 .56845738
calnstp (6-23 months) .20638464 -.09377136 .47214883
Since the asymmetric confidence interval for height z-score does not contain zero, as you mentioned I can say that 2006 child height z-scores stochastically dominate 1996 child height z-scores at 5% level of significance. For 3-5 years children, the 2006 calories from non-staples stochastically dominants 1996 calories from non-staples at 5% level of significance. However, for 6-23 months children this is not true as the confidence interval contains zero. Am I right in my interpretation of the above results?
Can I say anything about statewise dominance from the above results?
Monica Jain
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HarvestPlus, IFPRI
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