Hi scott,
Thanks for the clarification... I think I have understood it now.. I will go
and have a look at the book..
rajesh
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Sent: 23 March 2006 17:13
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Subject: Re: st: RE: RE: Count data regression
On Mar 23, 2006, at 12:00 PM, Rajesh Tharyan wrote:
> Hi scott,
>
> Re your reply to hugh..
>
> 2. For the Poisson MLE, valid inference requires equality of the
> conditional
> mean and variance (equidispersion) - it does not require that the
> dependent
> variable have a Poisson distribution.
>
> I didn't get point two.. my impression was that it is the
> distribution of
> the underlying variable which sort of dictated whether you used a
> poisson
> regression or a nb regression..etc. but of course with a poission
> distributed variable you always have mean=variance..
(Different Scott talking now).
When you don't have equidispersion, you lose precision in your
estimates, but you don't lose consistency. So the Poisson is still
consistent even if the conditional mean does not equal the
conditional variance. Thankfully, there are ways to correct the
standard errors for overdispersion. See the -poisson, robust- option
and the -xtpoisson, vce(boot)-. I don't have my Cameron and Trivedi
MICROECONOMETRICS handy, but if you look in there, they talk about
this correct procedure, and I think -poisson, robust- does this. -sc
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