Re: st: Inequality Hypothsis test

[Asgar Khademvatani <akhademv@ucalgary.ca>]

Dear Maarten:

Thanks for the reply. Actually, I have already tried the inequality test 
by < = or > = sign as well, b but Stata gives error. I am not sure what 
is wrong?

Asgar

Maarten buis wrote:


> --- Asgar Khademvatani <akhademv@ucalgary.ca> wrote:
>  
>
> > Actually, I am trying to test an inequality hypothesis after
> > estimation command such SURE. I tried stata test command and other
> > given commands for hypothsis testing but I could not.  Can you
> > please let me know how can I test  an inequality hypothesis on Stata?
> >    
> You can't do that in Stata or in any other package. Remember what a
> statistical test is supposed to give you: the probability of drawing
> the sample you observed, or a more extreme sample, given that your null
> hypothesis is true. So we need to create a distribution of samples
> given that he null hypothesis is true. In order to create such a
> distribution the null hypothesis must contain an equal sign (either
> equal in case of a two sided test, or less than or equal to or more
> than or equal to in case of a one sided test).
>
> Hope this helps,
> Maarten
>
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