Re: st: cnsreg post estimation- Stata8

[Richard Williams <Richard.A.Williams.5@ND.edu>]

At 02:07 PM 6/28/2005 +0100, Vidya Mahambare wrote:
> Could anyone suggest how I can obtain R2/adjusted R2 and other diagnostics 
> after
> -cnsreg- (constrained regression) in Stata8?
Incidentally, I don't know why cnsreg does not provide this 
information.  Many/most/all? models you could estimate with cnsreg could be 
estimated with regular regression, e.g. you could add two variables 
together if you wanted to constrain their effects to be equal.  Often Stata 
has very good reasons for doing things like this, but it doesn't always 
tell you what they are!  Sometimes, too, it takes a conservative strategy, 
e.g. it might be that R^2 would be inappropriate with some constraints, 
ergo it chooses to never give you an R^2.  I encountered something like 
that with the -ml- command, where Stata insisted on reporting a Wald 
chi-square when I used constraints even though I was confident that an LR 
chi-square was appropriate.

Anyway, if cnsreg is making it difficult for you to get things you want, 
you might try using regular regression instead.  You just need to figure 
out how to impose the constraints, e.g. add 2 variables together if you 
want their effects constrained to be equal.

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