the standard error of a sum (or difference) is the square root of the
sum of the squared standard errors;
so se[(B-A)-(Y-X)] = sqrt[se(B-A)^2+ se(Y-X)^2] = sqrt[.0324503^2 +
.0084813^2]
=.0335
you could make an interaction variable of your 2 dummy variables and use
-regress- the coefficient and se on the interaction term will be what
you want (if you make the interaction term correctly).
hope this helps.
sean.
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-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of kannika
damrongplasit
Sent: Monday, October 10, 2005 7:15 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: st: Question on "ttest" command
To Stata Users,
I am writing to ask about how to compute standard error associated with
the differential change for treatment effect evaluation.
Here is the concept.
Group Before the policy After the policy
Change Differential Change
Treatment A B
B-A (B-A)-(Y-X)
Control X Y
Y-X
where A, B, X, and Y are the average value (i.e. mean) of each group.
My goal is to evaluate the impact of the policy by computing the
differential change (B-A)-(Y-X). In addition to finding the mean of
each cell, I also need to find the associated standard error for each of
them.
I use the command "ttest" to compute all the numerical value for the
column entitled "Change". The command ttest and the results are shown
below for both treatment and control groups.
ttest smoke if nt==1, by(before) --> treatment group
Two-sample t test with equal variances
------------------------------------------------------------------------
------
Group | Obs Mean Std. Err. Std. Dev. [95% Conf.
Interval]
---------+--------------------------------------------------------------
------
0 | 1332 .2845345 .0123672 .4513619 .2602731
.3087959
1 | 222 .2342342 .028489 .4244764 .1780894
.2903791
---------+--------------------------------------------------------------
------
combined | 1554 .2773488 .0113604 .4478342 .2550655
.299632
---------+--------------------------------------------------------------
------
diff | .0503003 .0324503 -.0133507
.1139513
------------------------------------------------------------------------
------
Degrees of freedom: 1552
Ho: mean(0) - mean(1) = diff = 0
Ha: diff < 0 Ha: diff != 0 Ha: diff > 0
t = 1.5501 t = 1.5501 t =
1.5501
P < t = 0.9393 P > |t| = 0.1213 P > t =
0.0607
ttest smoke if decrim==0, by(before) --> control group
Two-sample t test with equal variances
------------------------------------------------------------------------
------
Group | Obs Mean Std. Err. Std. Dev. [95% Conf.
Interval]
---------+--------------------------------------------------------------
------
0 | 16152 .1618995 .0028985 .36837 .1562181
.1675808
1 | 2108 .142315 .0076113 .3494558 .1273886
.1572414
---------+--------------------------------------------------------------
------
combined | 18260 .1596386 .0027106 .3662805 .1543255
.1649516
---------+--------------------------------------------------------------
------
diff | .0195845 .0084813 .0029602
.0362087
------------------------------------------------------------------------
------
Degrees of freedom: 18258
Ho: mean(0) - mean(1) = diff = 0
Ha: diff < 0 Ha: diff != 0 Ha: diff > 0
t = 2.3091 t = 2.3091 t =
2.3091
P < t = 0.9895 P > |t| = 0.0209 P > t =
0.0105
What I want to do next is to compute the "Differential Change" and its
associated standard error. The average differential change is easy to
compute. I just uses the information provided in the "Diff" rows.
The average differential change is (.0503003 - .0195845) = 0.0307158
MY QUESTION: HOW CAN I CALCULATE THE ASSOCIATED STANDARD ERROR FOR THIS
DIFFERENTIAL CHANGE (i.e. standard error of (B-A)-(Y-X)? In other
words, I would like to find out whether 0.0307158 is significantly
different from zero. Please let me know which command in STATA can be
used here. Can I use the "ttest" command? If so, how? Is there user
written command for it?
Best regards,
Kannika
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