Steve,
Date sent: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 13:43:22 -0500 (EST)
From: Stephen Schmidt <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: st: heteroskedasticity question
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> I'm trying to use Stata 7 to perform White's test for heteroskedasticity
> of unknown form. It appears to me from the help documents that Stata
> does not have a command to automatically perform this test; is that
> correct?
Nope, unless you are being very literal. Try
-findit heteroskedasticity white-
from within an internet-aware Stata and you'll see some add-ins that
will do it. One that isn't listed is our -ivhettest-, which will do
White's test (amongst others) for OLS as well as for IV, and which is
also downloadable.
With respect to your other question, "Huber/White/sandwich" is the
same thing as "White", though I would add that Eicker (sp?) should
probably be added to the list of originators who deserve the credit.
Cheers,
Mark
>
> I'm performing it by generating squared residuals and squared
> values of the independent variables. That is, given the original
> regression
>
> y = b0 + b1*x1 + b2*x2 + e
>
> I'm generating e-hat squared, calling it resid2, generating x1sq
> and x2sq, and estimating
>
> resid2 = g0 + g1*x1 + g2*x1sq + g3*x2 + g4*x2sq + u
>
> and then either taking the F-stat from the regression or calculating
> N*R2 which has a chi-squared 4 distribution under the null of no
> heteroskedasticity.
>
> Question 1: Is this the best way to do this in Stata?
>
> Question 2: I've also tried using the commands "hettest x1 x2"
> and "hettest x1 x2 x1sq x2sq". They do not give the same answers,
> not close. Can someone give a brief description of what hettest
> does, or a citation to the original article? I'm familiar with
> the Bruesch-Pagan-Godfrey test, but the Cook-Weisburg test which
> is also known as the Breusch-Pagan test appears not to be the
> same thing.
>
> Question 3: I'm also interested in using White's robust standard
> error formula. The documentation says that "regress y x1 x2, robust"
> will use the "Huber/White/sandwich" standard error formula. Is that
> the same thing, and if not, how do they differ?
>
> Thanks in advance for assistance.
>
> Steve Schmidt
>
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