Hi all,
I encountered a weird problem. As you know, the formal form of obtaining the coefficient estimates in OLS is: B = (X'X)^(-1)X'Y. In a dataset that contains X1, X2, X3, X4, X5 and Y, I did the following:
reg Y X1 X2 X3 X4 X5
mkmat X1 X2 X3 X4 X5, matrix(X_ALL)
matrix B = inv(X_ALL'*X_ALL)*X_ALL'Y
Theoretically, I am supposed to get the same results for the coefficient estimates contained in B matrix as well as in the results from reg command. However, my regression results are slightly different in these two approaches. Can anyone tell why I have different results?
Thank you very much!
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