On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 4:17 PM, Carlo Lazzaro wrote:
> The main meaning of my example is that you cannot be sure, after invoking
> -robust-, that heteroskedasticity is automatically removed. In other words,
> homoskedasticity should be checked graphically even after - robust -.
Robust standard errors do not change the coefficients, just the
standard errors change. So the predicted values and residuals will
also remain unchanged after you have specified the -vce(robust)-
option. The whole point of robust standard errors is not that it
"solves" in some way for heteroskedasticity, it just makes that
"assumption" irrelevant. For more, see section 20.20 of the User's
Guide.
Hope this helps,
Maarten
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