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Re: st: testing equality of fixed effects


From   Stas Kolenikov <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: testing equality of fixed effects
Date   Wed, 28 Jan 2004 09:47:24 -0500 (EST)

> I have two fixed effect panel regressions. I want to test the equality
> of the two fixed effects using an F-test, but I cannot seem to do this. I
> have obtained the predicted values of the fixed effects through the
> command:
>
> predict fe1, u
> predict fe2, u
>
> I have tried to test these through the "test" command, but that doesn't
> seem to be working. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Do you want to test the fixed effects themselves, or the coefficients from
two fixed effect regressions? I don't think that testing the fixed effects
themselves is a very good idea, as long as those are not consistently
estimated in a usual panel setting (short T, many N). If you are really
curious, you can do any sort of a paired tests -- see -ttest- or
-signrank-. I'd trust the latter to a greater extent. Also, make sure you
are using only one observation per panel. Those tests would not account
for the fact that you have estimated the fixed effects -- essentially, you
are using one degree of freedom per observation, so formally you don't
have any degrees of freedom to conduct those tests. That's the consequence
of the lack of estimability.

 ---                                    Stas Kolenikov
 --       Ph.D. student in Statistics at UNC-Chapel Hill
 - http://www.komkon.org/~tacik/  -- [email protected]

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