Thanks to everyone for your replies. The samples are bhat*x from a
regression y = a + bx, where the regression residuals are correlated.
So I have two regressions
y1 = a1 + b1*x1
y2 = a2 + b2*x2
In each regression the residuals are correlated along a known
dimension, so I can use the appropriate cluster option.
The problem is I don't know the right test for mean(b1hat*x1) = mean(b2hat*x2).
Thanks!!
On 4/28/05, FEIVESON, ALAN H. (AL) (JSC-SK) (NASA)
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Berk -
>
> Following Joseph's question - you don't say what sort of correlation you
> have - equicorrelated within each sample?, AR? or what? If you actually knew
> the covariance matrix within each sample and assumed normality, you could
> transform to independent observations and do a t-test.
>
> Al Feiveson
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Joseph Coveney
> Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2005 12:51 AM
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> Subject: Re: st: Testing equality of means with correlated samples?
>
> Berk Sensoy wrote:
>
> I would like to test whether the mean of variable A is equal to that
> of variable B. Observations are correlated, however. The
> observations of A are all potentially correlated with each other, and
> the same is true for B. There is no correlation between A and B.
>
> Because of this structure, I believe the standard t-test for equality
> of means will give a p-value that is way too low, because it assumes
> the samples are distributed iid.
>
> Anyone know how to do this (in Stata)?
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> I'm missing something here. With a t-test, observations of variable A are,
> say, 3, 1, 4, 2 and 5. The concept of correlation wouldn't seem to apply to
> such an unordered series of numbers as this. Likewise, for variable B with,
> say, 4, 6, 3, 5 and 2, as values.
>
> Are you saying that there are several *clusters* of values for each of
> variables A and B, and the values within the clusters are more similar than
> between the clusters, as if the assignment to treatment group were by
> clusters? If so, and if you can identify the clusters, then perhaps you can
> use Jeph Herrin's -clttest-. (-findit cltest- or -findit clttest-)
>
> Joseph Coveney
>
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