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Re: Calculating Median Ages [message #3203 is a reply to message #3198]

Thu, 06 November 2014 10:38

rbriceno
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Registered: November 2014
Location: Costa Rica

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Dear Liz-DHS. One more question, maybe to be referred to Dr. Pullum.
When I execute what the sintax express I got a table but the percentages expressed are instead located at 19 and 20 years.
afm | Freq. Percent Cum.
------------+-----------------------------------
10 | 11.159992 0.77 0.77
11 | 6.016508 0.41 1.18
12 | 9.945302 0.68 1.87
13 | 27.479334 1.89 3.76
14 | 50.596559 3.48 7.24
15 | 80.935504 5.57 12.80
16 | 111.12714 7.64 20.45
17 | 124.129971 8.54 28.98
18 | 121.885099 8.38 37.37
19 | 159.949541 11.00 48.37
20 | 112.759464 7.76 56.12
21 | 119.70874 8.23 64.36
22 | 55.087768 3.79 68.15
23 | 67.350715 4.63 72.78
24 | 90.994014 6.26 79.04
25 | 34.253336 2.36 81.39
26 | 21.04997 1.45 82.84
27 | 16.490187 1.13 83.98
28 | 6.711959 0.46 84.44
29 | .498598 0.03 84.47
. | 225.767118 15.53 100.00
------------+-----------------------------------
Total | 1,453.8968 100.00

Is there a way that the median age has an error in its calculation?

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		Calculating Median Ages By: hlantos on Fri, 06 June 2014 11:37
		Re: Calculating Median Ages By: Liz-DHS on Fri, 06 June 2014 12:01
		Re: Calculating Median Ages By: hlantos on Tue, 24 June 2014 15:07
		Re: Calculating Median Ages By: Liz-DHS on Tue, 24 June 2014 15:27
		Re: Calculating Median Ages By: Liz-DHS on Tue, 24 June 2014 15:54
		Re: Calculating Median Ages By: hlantos on Tue, 24 June 2014 17:00
		Re: Calculating Median Ages By: hlantos on Tue, 08 July 2014 09:58
		Re: Calculating Median Ages By: hlantos on Tue, 08 July 2014 10:15
		Re: Calculating Median Ages By: Liz-DHS on Tue, 08 July 2014 11:40
		Re: Calculating Median Ages By: akwarae@gmail.com on Tue, 26 November 2019 04:05
		Re: Calculating Median Ages By: rbriceno on Wed, 05 November 2014 16:04
		Re: Calculating Median Ages By: Liz-DHS on Wed, 05 November 2014 16:35
		Re: Calculating Median Ages By: rbriceno on Thu, 06 November 2014 10:38
		Re: Calculating Median Ages By: Liz-DHS on Tue, 11 November 2014 11:33

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