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Re: st: RE: compare models
What I want to estimte is the the age-wealth path. in order to do that I
choose spline function for age but I don't know how many knots it should
have. in order to choose the number of knots I want to test a full age
dummy model against an spline one. can you help me?
thanks
> Testing for non-nested models is very hard. You might want to look into
> AIC or BIC (see -help est stats-). Can you tell us more about your
> models because now we cannot do anything more than this type of general
> comments.
>
> -- Maarten
>
> --- Serena Trucchi <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> thanks Martin, but my models are non-nested..
>>
>> > -nestreg- may be for you...
>> >
>> > Martin Weiss
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>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: [email protected]
>> > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Serena
>> Trucchi
>> > Sent: Friday, April 11, 2008 4:49 PM
>> > To: [email protected]
>> > Subject: st: compare models
>> >
>> > I would like to know how to compare different specifications of a
>> model. I
>> > would test whether two different specifications are statistically
>> > different.
>> > thanks
>> >
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