From: David Greenberg <[email protected]>
Reply-To: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: st: TSCS: what model for N>T ??
Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2006 13:57:00 -0500
Why don't you try reading the Beck and Katz articles to resolve your
confusion? They are quite accessible. David Greenberg, Sociology
Department, New York University
----- Original Message -----
From: joel miller <[email protected]>
Date: Thursday, March 9, 2006 9:42 am
Subject: st: TSCS: what model for N>T ??
> Fellow Stata users,
>
> I�ve been working on TSCS data involving 41 police force areas, and
> about 7
> time periods (soon I hope to be 8). I�m theoretically interested in
> a fixed
> effects model, because I want to see how variation within police
> forces is
> impacting arrest rates over time (and Hausman tests suggest a fixed
> effects
> model is appropriate).
>
> However, is OLS fixed effects my only choice here? I have played a
> little
> with a panel adjusted standard error (the Beck and Katz model). But
> while I
> have seen published articles which use the PCSE model with a
> similar data
> structure to mine (N a lot greater than T), I have since been
> advised that
> this is not appropriate. This puzzles me a little, because I have
> also read
> further that the Beck/Katz is actually more suited to N>T than
> other
> approaches.
>
> In short I�m confused. Help!
>
>
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