Thanks for all the advice. I am working on it now. The sigmamore option
is under ivreg. I had already used it, however, and still received the
error message that I mentioned.
Dawn
On Wed, 6 Nov 2002, John A Karikari wrote:
> Could I have more information on the "sigmamore" option. I couldn't
> find it using the search process.
> Thanks.
>
> >>> [email protected] 11/06/02 12:06PM >>>
> Dawn,
>
> If you're using -hausman- after ivreg, you won't get the "failure to
> meet the asymptotic assumptions" problem if you use the -sigmamore-
> option. This guarantees that the matrix difference in the middle of
> the standard Hausman test statistic is positive definite.
>
> Even simpler, just to install -ivendog- from ssc-ideas. This will
> give you both the Wu-Hausman artificial regression F stat, and the
> (Durbin-Wu-)Hausman chi-sq statistic, after estimation using -ivreg-.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> --Mark
>
> Date sent: Wed, 06 Nov 2002 11:53:37 -0500
> From: "WILLIAM EVEN" <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Subject: st: Re: hausman test
> Send reply to: [email protected]
>
> > An alternative approach to the Hausman test is to include the
> residual
> > from the reduced form equation into the primary equation and perform
> a
> > t-test on its significance. This avoids any problems with the
> > differences in the variance covariance matrices being non-positive
> > definite that one can encounter in the original formulation of the
> > test.
> >
> >
> >
> > Bill Even, Professor
> > Department of Economics
> > Miami University
> > Oxford, OH 45056
> >
> > Phone: 513-529-2865
> > Fax: 513-529-6992
> > home page: www.sba.muohio.edu/evenwe
> > e-mail: [email protected]
> >
> > >>> [email protected] 11/06/02 10:29AM >>>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'd like to know if anyone has any suggestions on how to proceed
> when
> > you cannot perform the Hausman specification test because your data
> > does not meet the asymptotic assumptions of the test. The augmented
> > regression test is also based on the same assumptions of the Hausman
> > and so is of no help in this regard. I am using the Hausman test as
> a
> > pre-test for two-way causation but cannot perform it in some
> > instances. Is any one familiar with any alternatives to theses tests
> > for @SLS? If not, is the best approach to report results of both the
> > OLS models and the 2SLS models?
> >
> > Thanks.
> > DB
> >
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