How do the ML estimation commands (e.g., logit and probit) compute the model
chi-squared test when the estimate robust standard errors on clustered
data?
| Title |
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Chi-squared test for models estimated with robust standard errors |
| Author |
William Sribney, StataCorp |
| Date |
August 1997; minor revisions May 2005; minor revisions August 2007 |
When you specify vce(robust), specify
vce(cluster clustvar), or
use pweights for a maximum likelihood estimation command that allows
these options, the model chi-squared test is a Wald test rather than a
likelihood-ratio test.
When you have clusters or pweights, the likelihood used for estimation is
not a true likelihood; i.e., it is not the distribution of the sample. For
clustering, observations are no longer independent. For pweights, the
likelihood does not reflect the "randomness" of the sampling weights. Thus,
here, one should not use the conventional likelihood-ratio test.
When you only have a few clusters (say, <100), an
adjusted Wald test is better than the standard Wald test. The
svy commands use
the adjusted Wald test by default, as does the
test command
when used after svy estimation. For more
information, see [R] test also Korn and Graubard (1990).
Reference
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Korn, E. L., and B. I. Graubard. 1990.
- Simultaneous testing of regression coefficients with complex survey
data: Use of Bonferroni t statistics.
American Statistician 44: 270–276.
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