OK. A little quieter reasoning will achieve a lot more.
There seems to be a miscommunication here. Please try and
understand what each other is saying before answering.
Thank you both,
m.p.
Shinkyu Yang wrote:
>
> If it is NOT satisfactory, then why don't YOU make it satisfactory,
> Ricardo Ovaldia?
>
> I am quite puzzled why you CANNOT contribute but can blame others? I
> did NOT accuse anything but just stated my experience.
>
> BTW, I did NOT say that ALL Stata's SEs are hardly correct.
>
> Skyang
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ricardo
> Ovaldia
> Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2003 5:58 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: st: qreg SEs
>
> --- Shinkyu Yang <[email protected]> first wrote
> that the way Stata computes SE was incorrect:
>
> > As far as I know, qreq does not produce the right
> > SEs. There are several ways to construct standard
> > error. I will tell further if you cannot find ways
> > to construct SEs.
>
> Frank Eaton <[email protected]> ask for more
> detail
>
> > Please do tell me more, thank you!
>
> --- Shinkyu Yang <[email protected]> then wrote:
>
> > As others already mentioned, Reference qreg part
> > explains bootstrap
> > method to construct SEs. My experience told me that
> > the Stata's SEs
> > were hardly correct.
>
> This is NOT satisfactory, Shinkyu Yang, you stated
> that Stata's SE are wrong but do not provide any
> supporting evidence. This leaves us, who routinely use
> -qreg-, wandering if you are correct and Stata is
> wrong or what? If Stata is computing incorrect SE, I
> and I'm sure Stata, would want to know this.
>
> I think that is a terrible disservice to Stata and
> users to state on this list that something is computed
> incorrectly without providing adequate evidence.
>
> Best,
> Ricardo.
>
> =====
> Ricardo Ovaldia, MS
> Statistician
> Oklahoma City, OK
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