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st: RE: Does xtreg (or xtivreg) assume equally spaced time points?


From   "Schaffer, Mark E" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   st: RE: Does xtreg (or xtivreg) assume equally spaced time points?
Date   Tue, 7 Aug 2012 16:27:56 +0100

Lisa,

The model you specify below,

> Our model is: xtivreg depper (bmi = momobes)

has no apparent time dimension, i.e., it seems to be a static model.  If
so, the spacing between consecutive periods is irrelevant and you don't
need to do anything.

HTH,
Mark

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:owner-
> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Lisa Marie Yarnell
> Sent: 07 August 2012 15:32
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: st: Does xtreg (or xtivreg) assume equally spaced time
points?
> 
> Hi Statalisters,
> 
> Does xtreg (or really, what we are using, xtivreg--the extension of
xtreg that
> allows for an instrument) asusme equally-spaced time points in the
panel
> model?
> 
> We have four waves of data.
> Wave I and Wave II are 1.5 years apart.
> Wave II and Wave III are 5.5 years apart.
> Wave III and Wave IV are 6 years apart.
> 
> Is it wrong to put data from these time points into the xtivreg model?
Is
> there a way to adjust the model for unequally spaced time points?
> 
> Our model is: xtivreg depper (bmi = momobes)
> 
> How can we alter the model to account for the unequal spacing?
> 
> Thanks,
> Lisa
> 
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