Tewodaj,
Quoting TEWODAJ MOGUES <[email protected]>:
> Hi Stata list users,
>
> If any of you have access to both Stata7 and Stata8, I would be
> curious to know if you have any insight why these produce different
> results for the same commands. I haven't tried out a load of
> different commands to see if there is always discrepancy, but given
> my interest in dynamic panel data modelling, I tried for example
> this and I get wildly different results:
>
> xtabond y x1 x2 L.x3 , lags(1) pre(x4 x5 , lag(0,1)) twostep
> noconstant
>
> Please try it out on your own data, using any variables for the y
> and the x's, and see the different output.
I just tried with a nonsense regression using the abdata dataset, and got
the same results in Stata 7 and Stata 8.
Have you tried checking whether xtabond2 agrees with xtabond?
--Mark
> You don't have to know
> much about xtabond to check whether the results are different (since
> they should not be). After knowing what's going on here, the obvious
> next step is to find out which of the two STata versions is "doing
> the right thing".
>
> Thanks,
> Tewodaj
>
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> Tewodaj Mogues
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> University of Wisconsin - Madison
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