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st: RE: Myers Blended Index
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Joe Canner <[email protected]>
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st: RE: Myers Blended Index
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Tue, 5 Nov 2013 20:44:53 +0000
Since I was intrigued by the question but not familiar with Myers Blended Index, I looked online for information and found the following: http://data.princeton.edu/eco572/digitpref.html which has both a discussion of the issues and a link to a Stata command for calculating the index.
Joe Canner
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
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From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Valle, Giuseppina
Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2013 3:34 PM
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Subject: st: Myers Blended Index
Hello. I am trying to examine digit preference in my data looking at number of sexual partners. Number of partners reported in my data range from 1 to 300, though I will likely only keep partners ranging from 1 to 50 ( I only examine those with sexual experience).
I have used the following code to begin this process.
gen lastdigit = mod(numpart,10)
tab lastdigit
lastdigit | Freq. Percent Cum.
------------+-----------------------------------
0 | 595 11.18 11.18
1 | 1,018 19.13 30.31
2 | 695 13.06 43.38
3 | 628 11.80 55.18
4 | 464 8.72 63.90
5 | 779 14.64 78.54
6 | 367 6.90 85.44
7 | 324 6.09 91.52
8 | 282 5.30 96.82
9 | 169 3.18 100.00
------------+-----------------------------------
Total | 5,321 100.00
So here I can see that there is some preference for 0,1,2,3, and 5. However, now I wish to calculate a Myers Blended Index. Is there code for Stata 12 to produce this or any literature someone can suggest to better understand this?
Thank you in advance.
-Pina
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