Jacki Buros <[email protected]> asks about using the -hascons- option with
-xtmixed-:
> Taking this to the multilevel context, not having the -hascons- option for
> xtmixed is rather clumsy, because I sometimes want to see the group-level
> variance\covariance of y, by using the command
>
> . xtmixed y groupA non_groupA, nocons || id: groupA not_groupA, nocons
> var cov(uns)
>
> but, using -nocons-, I have 2 model degrees of freedom where I should really
> only have 1.
>
Since -xtmixed- does not allow -hascons- there is no way to obtain the correct
test as a part of the model output. However, Jacki can obtain the correct
Wald test by using -test- after -xtmixed-. For the model above, the Wald test
with 1 degree of freedom corresponds to testing the contrast Ho:
coef(groupA)-coef(non_groupA) = 0.
Here is the example:
. xtmixed y groupA non_groupA, nocons || id: groupA not_groupA, nocons ///
var cov(uns)
. test groupA = non_groupA
As for adding this option, this is something that we will look into.
-- Yulia
[email protected]
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