Re: st: GOOGLE ANSWERS FORWARDED

[n j cox <n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk>]

What is this?

I propose three simple principles:

1. If someone wants to join Statalist and post to it, they should
feel welcome, and they should read the FAQ to see how we operate. 
Nothing new there.

2. If someone wants to post something to Statalist on behalf of someone 
else, that's OK so long as they explicitly undertake to answer 
subsidiary questions and forward the answers.

3. Otherwise I see zero point in answering questions like this, as
we have no assurances of an answer being seen, or "someone" or "Martin"
answering any questions it raises. The appeal to urgency is also
objectionable.

Nick
n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk

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From: noah_kauffman@prusec.com
Subject: st: GOOGLE ANSWERS FORWARDED
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 10:34:11 -0500

Someone @ google answers asks:


  Ok, I'm trying to run a
  fixed-effects panel in stata.
  My regression: (where var1 is the
  depend. variable)

  (PLEASE SEE DATA AT END) - Data
  pasted from excel into stata via
  editor
  Stata commands were as follows:

  "tsset id year"
  "gen var1 = ln(x3)"
  "gen var2 = ln(var 1[_n-1])"   ie.
  require ln(x3 i,t-1)
  "gen var3 = ln(x2)"
  "gen var4 = ln(5 +x1)"

  xtreg var1 var2 var3 var4, i(id), fe

  Now for the coefficient on var2 I
  get 0.177, and I'm looking for
  something around the 0.5 region.
  I've gone wrong somewhere -  can
  someone please help???
  It's pretty urgent as I need this by
  Thursday morning at latest. If it
  helps, I'm trying to estiamte the
  model on page 1146 for OECD
  countries, (but with my own data) in
  Islam's paper: "Growth Empirics:
  A Panel Data Approach" (1995)
  I'm online all the time, so if
  necessarty, I can clarify things
  beforehand.

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