I think Clive meant -summarize, detail-.
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Meloria Meschi
Well summarize gives me mean, standard deviation, the usual stuff. ci gives the confidence interval around the mean, with the se calculated in the usual way, ie sdev/sqrt(n).
If the sum is say, 1000 and the mean is 50 - I can't surely use the standard error of the mean to construct a confidence interval for the sum. And also the stdev should refer to the mean - population mean, rather than sample mean. So how do I get the SE of the sum?
My version of stata does not allow the display option by the way.
Clive Nicholas
Meloria Meschi wrote:
> I have a silly problem that's driving me nuts. I have estimated two
> production function, with AR(1) correction. I got 7 point forecasts each
> and their standard errors (call each forecast series x1 and x2). I have
> computed the confidence intervals for each of these forecasts.
>
> Then I have added the two forecasts into one series y=x1 + x2 and produced
> s.e. and confidence intervals for this series as well. What I need now is
> a confidence interval for the sum of y (ie total production from the two
> sites). How do I compute the standard error for this total? And does it
> actually make sense to do so?
What does
. summarize y, display
tell you? I'm assuming these functions are continuous, valid measurements
which have no bounds. If so, calculating standard errors should pose no
difficulties. But only _you_ can answer that question!
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