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Re: st: lincom standard errors


From   Roger Newson <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: lincom standard errors
Date   Mon, 30 Sep 2002 16:36:43 +0100

At 11:06 30/09/02 -0400, Angela Dills wrote:
I'm running a regression of y on x and x-squared. I then want to calculate dy/dx at the mean of x. I use lincom and get an estimate and a standard error for the estimate. What I can't figure out, however, is how the standard errors for this estimate are calculated. Thanks,
If beta is the vector of coefficients, V is the covariance matrix of beta, and A is a vector defining the linear combination (which is equal to transpose(A)*beta), then the variance of the linear combination is calculated as transpose(A)*V*A, and the standard error of the linear combination is the square root of the variance of the linear combination.

I hope this helps.

Roger


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