st: RE: need help to understand what STATA exactly does for robust regression(rreg)

["Nick Cox" <n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk>]

This is well explained in the manual at [R] rreg. 
Alternatively, check out the chapter by Li in 
the volume 
"Exploring Data Tables, Trends and Shapes" 
edited by Hoaglin, Mosteller and Tukey 
in 1985. 

Nick 
n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk 

ss7705@albany.edu

> can anyone help me by clearly explaining what STATA does to 
> conduct robust
> regression? Or, in other words, what "rreg" does? Please explain as
> clearly as posible as the Stata help is unfortunately not self
> explanatory.

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