Jian,
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jian Zhang
> Sent: 16 July 2006 08:36
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: st: a question on testing for random effect model
> against fixed effect model
>
> Thanks, Clive and Rodrigo!
>
> I wonder if there is an alternative test for random effect
> against fixed effect or a robust form of hausman test if the
> assumptions made for Hausman test do not hold (one of the
> assumptions for hausman test is the homoskedasticity and
> uncorrelation of the idiosyncratic errors.
> But this is often invalid.)
Sorry to come in late on this, but I have three suggestions relating to
your original question.
First, in a standard (i.e., non-robust) Hausman test, you can guarantee
a positive test statistic by using the -sigmamore- or -sigmaless-
options; the former is more traditional. Second, including the constant
isn't traditional in a fixed vs. random effects hausman test. Third, if
you want to do a heteroskedastic- or cluster-robust version of the test,
you can use the artificial regression version of the test described in
Wooldridge's 2002 book (and I believe discussed in Statalist last year
by Vince Wiggins, if I'm not mistaken) and use robust or cluster-robust
standard errors in the artificial regression. The artificial regression
version will also guarantee a positive test statistic (of course!).
Cheers,
Mark
Prof. Mark Schaffer
Director, CERT
Department of Economics
School of Management & Languages
Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh EH14 4AS
tel +44-131-451-3494 / fax +44-131-451-3296
email: [email protected]
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>
> Jian
>
>
> On Sat, 15 Jul 2006, Rodrigo A. Alfaro wrote:
>
> > Jian,
> >
> > Try -xtreg, re sa- instead of -xtreg, re- the additional
> option takes
> > care "more carefully" the unbalanced issue using Swamy-Arora method.
> >
> > Read Method and Formulas in the manual, for version 8:
> > http://www.stata-press.com/manuals/stata8/xtreg.pdf and version 9:
> > http://www.stata.com/bookstore/pdf/xtreg.pdf
> >
> > Rodrigo.
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Clive Nicholas" <[email protected]>
> > To: <[email protected]>
> > Sent: Saturday, July 15, 2006 4:19 AM
> > Subject: Re: st: a question on testing for random effect
> model against
> > fixed effect model
> >
> >
> > Jian Zhang wrote:
> >
> > > I have a question on testing random effect model against fixed
> > > effect model. Hope that you can help me out. Here is the question;
> > >
> > > I am applying random effect model and fixed effect model to an
> > > unbanlanced panel data (use xtreg, re and xtreg, fe). To
> test which
> > > model is more appropriate, I run a hausman test.
> However, the test
> > > statistics (the chi square) is negative. This makes
> hausman testing
> > > impossible, since chi square cann't be negative. The reason that
> > > hausman test doesn't work is that the model's error
> structure does
> > > not meet the assumptions made for the hausman test.
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > Did you run the following:
> >
> > xtreg ..., fe
> >
> > est store fixed
> >
> > xtreg ..., re
> >
> > hausman fixed ., alleqs constant
> >
> > If not, see if that works. Works for me every time I have to use it.
> >
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