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Re: st: Re: qreg versus rreg


From   Richard Williams <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: Re: qreg versus rreg
Date   Fri, 30 Jan 2004 11:58:27 -0500

At 09:34 AM 1/30/2004 -0500, Michael Blasnik wrote:
I usually look at both and then try to figure out any substantive
differences in results, but I'm generally partial to the coefficient
estimates from rreg (I often deal with skewed distributions where the median
is noticeably lower than the mean).  On the other hand, I sometimes find
rreg's std errors estimates questionable.
An additional tidbit: Hamilton (Statistics with Stata, updated for version 8, p. 246) argues that "-rreg-, -qreg- and -bsqreg- deal comfortably with y-outliers, unless the observations with unusual y values have unusual x values (leverage) too." He argues that -rreg- tends to deal with such situations better, because -qreg- tries to track such outliers while -rreg- tends to just discard them.

Overall, it seems like Hamilton has more good things to say about -rreg- than -qreg-, but maybe that is a function of the examples he chose. The -qreg- ability to model something other than the median (e.g. 25th or 75th percentile) might be a handy feature in some cases, as the Reference manual shows.

Also, a lot of the examples I see do seem to involve coding errors, which may be part of the reason -rreg- looks relatively good; you want such cases discarded (although I think it would be better to do it yourself rather than rely on the program). The sort of genuine outliers that Nick describes might be a different matter.

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