st: Re: glm with aweight

[Marcello Pagano <pagano@hsph.harvard.edu>]

> > From: Kit Baum <baum@bc.edu>
> > Date: May 7, 2007 9:40:21 AM EDT
> > To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> > Subject: glm with aweight
> >
> > sacrificial lamb
> >
> > regress price headroom trunk [aw=rep78]
> > and
> > glm price headroom trunk [aw=rep78]
> >
> > give exactly the same results (as they should). Given that, why use 
> > glm for a weighted least squares problem?
> >
> >
> >
> > Kit Baum, Boston College Economics and DIW Berlin
> > http://ideas.repec.org/e/pba1.html
> > An Introduction to Modern Econometrics Using Stata:
> > http://www.stata-press.com/books/imeus.html
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