Thank you very much. Your orientation on using xtreg, re and fe helped
wonderfuly.
Cheers,
Jose Maria
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From: "Chris Rohlfs" <[email protected]>
> dear jose,
>
> i believe the answer is yes to both of those questions,... , but i think
in a case like you described i'd just
> use -xtreg-
>
> with the re (random effects) option if you just want to correct for the
> autocorrelation & degrees of freedom issue associated w/ using repeated
> measurements
>
> with the fe (fixed effects) option if you want to control for omitted
> child-specific characteristics that might be correlated with the
> treatment. -- if you're running a randomized experiment, then this
> shouldn't be necessary.
>
> with the be (between estimator) option if you have noisy data and you want
> to reduce the measurement error by comparing child-specific averages for
> all your variables.
>
> chris
>
> On Sun, 30 Mar 2003, jose maria wrote:
>
> > Dear Statalisters:
> > I have a very simple problem : to compare two treatmentes
> > (A vs B), measuring the z scores of the same children every 4 months, in
one
> > year period, that is, a regression with repeated measurements. I do not
want
> > to use the MlwiN package . Can I use the xt/gee Stata
> > suite? Can I use the gllamm program . I have both 7 and 8
> > Jose Maria
> >
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