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Re: Weighting after de-normalization [message #3993 is a reply to message #3987] Mon, 16 March 2015 15:08 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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I think Ruilin means that if you wanted to, say, count the number of stunted children, you would get the wrong answer, because in that calculation the value of the weights has a meaning itself (instead of just the relative values of the weights). You will get the same mean stunting rate with original or de-normalized weights, but you would't get the same total number of stunted children.

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