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st: How is the R2 for nonlinear least squares obtained?
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Zoe Kuehn <[email protected]>
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st: How is the R2 for nonlinear least squares obtained?
Date
Tue, 5 Jun 2012 22:08:37 +0200
Hi
I am using STATA's nl command for estimating a nonlinear CES function. But
the R2 that STATA reports does not correspond to the R2 I calculate when
transferring the data to excel. However, it turns out to be exactly equal
to a measure called "Cos^2", i.e. the square of the cosine of the angle
between Y and its predictor (Cos^2=(sum(y*y_hat)^2/(sum(y^2)*sum(y_hat^2)).
Does somebody know if that is mere coicidence, or if this is the way STATA
calculates the R2 for Nonlinear least squares? If this is the way STATA
calculates the R2 for the nl command does anybody know the reason for it?
Thank you!
Best
Zoe
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