You make yourself very clear, but my
comment remains the same.
As so often on Statalist, what you
should do with your data is not
reducible to a straight technical
"Do this, don't do that".
Nick
[email protected]
Rijo John
> Dear Nick,
>
> Thanks for your reply. Actually my problem is as follows. I
> have a survey
> data with so many observations. The distribution of the variables I am
> considering are not normal. The standard OLS regression suffers from
> Heteroscedasticity even after log transformations as any one
> would expect
> in survey data. So my idea is to run a LAD regression (median
> regression
> using qreg) which is not affected by outlier values compared
> to OLS. The
> LAD is also robust to heteroscedsticity compared to OLS. So
> while doing it
> I also want to compare the result between standard OLS and LAD. I also
> want to check if I trim the outliers will OLS estimates come
> close to the
> LAD estimates. This is what I want to do. I hope I make myself clear.
>
> Regards,
> Rijo John.
>
> On Tue, 22 Jun 2004, Nick Cox wrote:
>
> :I guess there's a literature on this somewhere,
> :but it doesn't seem that trimming of tails
> :before regression ever caught on as standard practice
> :(unless there's a subdiscipline that does it all the
> :time, as a living refutation of this guess).
> :
> :The key question to me is what is your underlying
> :problem? Worrying about long tails is often
> :best met by quantile or robust regression or using
> :transformations or non-identity link functions.
> :Far simpler and better supported than tinkering
> :with the tails...
> :
> :Nick
> :[email protected]
> :
> :Rijo John
> :>
> :> I have a data set with quite a few outliers. Suppose I am
> trimming my
> :> dependent variable 1% each from top and bottom using 1st and 99th
> :> percentiles. And I have the regression estimates before and after
> :> trimming. Let us also suppose that some of the variables that were
> :> significant before trimming turned out to be insignificant
> :> after trimming
> :> and/or viceversa.
> :>
> :> Is there a standard way by which one can decide how much
> percentage
> :> of data should be trimmed? Is a chow test for the equality of
> :> coefficients
> :> enough for this? I mean trim upto the point where the changes in
> :> coefficients becomes insignificant? Or is there any other
> :> standard way to
> :> do this?
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