Dear Statalist,
I have an estimate of the reduction in disease risk based on a dietary
supplement, and I also have the estimate of the cost of disease
incidence.
I want to multiply these two estimates in order to know the expected
reduction in medical costs as a result of taking the dietary supplement.
The two estimates are from completely different, independent samples.
Question: can I use Stata to estimate the standard errors for this
product?
In my case, I'm not estimating the elements of the product myself (which
makes 'lincom' less helpful since I want to supply the estimates and
standard errors without running the regressions (which come from other
papers).
Thanks so much for any thoughts,
David
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