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Re: st: Reversed coefficient sign for exponential MLE vs. ereg
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Maarten Buis <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Reversed coefficient sign for exponential MLE vs. ereg
Date
Mon, 30 Jan 2012 09:10:34 +0100
On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 2:41 AM, Gordon Burtch wrote:
> For those who are not familiar with ereg syntax: "ereg y" is equivalent to "streg, dist(exponential) nohr". My code output is included below, at the end of the e-mail.
>
> The coefficient estimates should be the same I think, though obviously I've done something wrong since the sign is reversed.
Looks like your command is using the accelarated failure time metric
rather than the log relative hazard metric.
Hope this helps,
Maarten
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