Re: scipy / stats : quantiles using sample weights from survey data

2010-08-18 Thread Aahz
In article <94bb6313-1b09-4eeb-9969-07d76048a...@m35g2000prn.googlegroups.com>, Christopher Barrington-Leigh wrote: > >There is a function scipy.stats.mstats.mquantiles that returns >quantiles for a vector of data. >But my data should not be uniformly weighted in an estimate of the >distribution

scipy / stats : quantiles using sample weights from survey data

2010-08-04 Thread Christopher Barrington-Leigh
There is a function scipy.stats.mstats.mquantiles that returns quantiles for a vector of data. But my data should not be uniformly weighted in an estimate of the distribution, since they are from a survey and come with estimated sampling weights based on the stratification used in sampling. Is th