Re: st: Parameters returned by -lincom- after -logistic-

[Roger Newson <roger.newson@kcl.ac.uk>]

At 13:30 09/05/2005, Richard wrote:

> p. 37 of the Stata 8 svy manual gives returned values and some 
> formulas.  e(df_m) and e(df_r) don't quite correspond to the d.f. reported 
> by the F stat but I suspect there is some trivial formula that shows the 
> relationship.  I know that, in writing my own program, I had to make sure 
> e(df_r) was available when svy was used, otherwise I got z's instead of 
> t's reported.

I think the -e(df_r)- of Page 37 of -[SVY]- probably applies to the case of 
scalar degrees of freedom, but not to the case of vector degrees of freedom.

Roger



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