Roger,
Date sent: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 15:59:26 -0000
From: Roger Harbord <[email protected]>
To: Statalist <[email protected]>
Subject: st: ivreg2 C-statistic with liml & robust options
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> If I use -ivreg2- with both the -liml- and -robust- options i get LIML
> point estimates with heteroskedasticity-robust standard errors (very
> nice, my thanks to Baum, Schaffer & Stillman).
>
> But if i use the -orthog()- option to test the endogeneity of a
> regressor, the resulting C-statistic doesn't appear to change
> depending on whether or not I use the -robust- option. However it does
> change with use of -robust- if i use 2SLS instead of LIML. (i have
> ivreg2 version 2.0.06 from SSC)
>
> Does this mean that the C-statistic given by -orthog()- is ignoring
> the -robust- option when I use LIML? If so is there an alternative?
Well spotted.
With IV, the C-stat without -robust- is based on two Sargan
statistics. Add -robust-, and the C-stat is based on two Hansen J
statistics. These two Hansen Js come from two GMM estimations. That
is, there is no difference between the C-stat reported for IV with
-robust- and the C-stat reported for two-step GMM with the -gmm-
option.
The C-stat for LIML is based on the Anderson-Rubin statistic (the
LIML analog of the Sargan statistic). The -robust- analog of the C-
stat would be based on the robust analog of the Anderson-Rubin
statistics. These in turn would come from the robust analog of LIML,
which is continuously-updated GMM (aka "CUE"). The current version
of ivreg2 doesn't implement CUE, but we have a beta version that
does. If you're really keen on trying it out, I can send it to you.
Cheers,
Mark
> Baum, Schaffer & Stillman (2003) appear to question the use of
> -hausman- with robust standard errors (section 5.2 & footnote 21), and
> -ivendog- won't work either.
>
> I'm new to IV so my apologies if i'm hopelessly confused..
>
> Thanks,
> Roger.
>
> C. F. Baum, M. E. Schaffer, and S. Stillman. Instrumental variables
> and GMM: Estimation and testing. Stata Journal 3 (1):1-31, 2003.
>
> --
> Roger Harbord
> Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol
> http://www.epi.bris.ac.uk
>
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