st: Re: changing significance levels

["Michael Blasnik" <michael.blasnik@verizon.net>]

test gives you a p-value, so there is no significance level to adjust, you 
can just compare the p-value to whatever cutoff you like.

Michael Blasnik
michael.blasnik@verizon.net

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Yvonne Capstick" <yvonnecapstick@hotmail.com>
To: <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu>
Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2005 2:24 PM
Subject: test: changing significance levels



> I apologize for such a simple question. I am using the "test" command to 
> test for equality of coefficients under an F-test, having just performed a 
> regression. Is there any way of either:
>
> a) changing the command to test that one coefficient is greater than the 
> other (i.e. specifiy a one-sided alternative hypothesis)
> b) specifying a different signficance level than 5%. Unlike for other 
> commands, an option ", sig" does not seem to be available for "test".
>
> I've tried "help test" but it hasn't listed anything that can help.
>
> Thanks
> YC
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