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RE: st: margins vs. lincom
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"Weichle, Thomas" <[email protected]>
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RE: st: margins vs. lincom
Date
Thu, 16 Dec 2010 09:32:27 -0600
Dear Michael and Paul,
Using Michael's example, I was able to reproduce the exact confidence
interval that lincom command produces because it uses the t-distribution
as Michael suggested. And margins command uses the z-distribution. For
the 95% C.I. using the z-distribution, the multiplier is 1.96 as we are
all familiar. But using the t-distribution, the multiplier is 2.0484071
as produced by Stata's invttail(n, p) function where n is the degrees of
freedom and p is the probability. Using n = 28 df from a sample of N=30
and p=.025:
. display invttail(28, .025)
2.0484071
lincom 95% C.I. = 72.60769+-2.0484071*4.837667 = (62.69818, 82.5172)
Tom Weichle
Math Statistician
Center for Management of Complex Chronic Care (CMC3)
Hines VA Hospital, Bldg 1, C202
708-202-8387 ext. 24261
[email protected]
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