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Re: Re: st: Why does Stata tell me that Random effects u_i ~ Gaussian?


From   alejandro lopez-feldman <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: Re: st: Why does Stata tell me that Random effects u_i ~ Gaussian?
Date   Wed, 30 Mar 2011 10:16:50 -0600

Theresa,

Thanks for the clarification.

Alejandro

2011/3/30 Theresa M. Boswell, StataCorp <[email protected]>:
> Alejandro Lopez-Feldman <[email protected]> writes:
>
>> I agree with Eric that the FAQ needs to be corrected as normality is
>> not required when doing the GLS version of RE. That is why I am
>> wondering about that part of the output from xtreg, re.
>
> Eric and Alejandro are correct in their assertions that the GLS estimates
> produced by -xtreg, re- are not predicated on a Gaussian distribution for the
> random effects.
>
> We will fix the output in a future ado update.  The related FAQ will also be
> changed accordingly.
>
> --Theresa
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