ranvar calculates the random group variance estimator of the mean for survey data. The estimator is described in detail by Wolter (1985) "Introduction to Variance estimation", New York/Berlin (Springer). This estimator is an alternative to other estimators of the variance of sample statistics for survey data e.g. the jacknife or taylor linearization. The application of the random group estimator requires, that random groups are already defined during data collection. ranvar allows aweights, whereas the variant ranvar2 allows iweights.
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Software component provided by Boston College Department of Economics in its series Statistical Software Components with number
S413401.
Size: Programming language: Stata Requires: Stata version 5.0 Date of creation: 24 Aug 2000 Date of revision:
06 Apr 2001 Handle: RePEc:boc:bocode:s413401
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