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st: Why does Stata tell me that Random effects u_i ~ Gaussian?
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alejandro lopez-feldman <[email protected]>
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st: Why does Stata tell me that Random effects u_i ~ Gaussian?
Date
Mon, 28 Mar 2011 13:07:02 -0600
Hi all,
I have a question about the Stata output after xtreg, re. My question
is very simple, why does Stata tell me that Random effects u_i ~
Gaussian? The theory for estimating random effects using GLS doesn't
require the normality assumption so I was wondering if that is used in
any of the output reported when using , re? I can't see why that info
is relevant there (if I was using MLE that would be other story).
Thanks for any help
Alejandro
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