Re: st: Different Stata versions give different standard errors

[Richard Williams <richardwilliams.ndu@gmail.com>]

At 05:05 PM 8/7/2011, Kelly Jones wrote:
> Hello all, Im having the following issue and wondering if anyone has
> any experience of this or any suggestions of its cause:
>
> Running the following command on the exact same data set, I get very
> different standard errors when using different versions of Stata.  The
> command is:
>
> areg var1 ? var9 if var10 & var11 & var12 & var13==1 [pw=var14],
> absorb(var15) cluster(var16)
>
> When using Stata SE 9.2 for Macintosh (on Mac OS 10.6 ­ machine has
> Intel core 2 duo processor, but Stata version is not for multi-core).
> the SE on the coeff for var1 is .019;
>
> When using Stata MP 11.2 on Windows 7 (machine has Intel core i7
> processor) the coefficient estimate is the same but the SE is .032!
On the win7 machine, I would try prefixing your command with version 9.2:

Then, if the standard error is .019, it will 
suggest the change is due to some change in areg 
across versions of Stata. If it is .032, it will 
suggest something about differences across hardware platforms.

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