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Re: st: Standard error of the estimate for svy: reg
Needless line
Ah, yes--the "Standard Error of the Estimate" nomenclature threw me.
The root MSE does not appear to me to be the standard error of any
estimate, but the terminology is obviously different in political
science.
The root MSE is an estimate of the assumed constant SD of single
error terms in the OLS model. But -svy; reg- does not require the
assumption of constant SD. This may have been one reason why the -
svy- writers were 'queasy' about including the estimate: its presence
could be misinterpreted to mean that the assumption is true.
Steve
On Aug 22, 2007, at 11:16 AM, Richard Forshee wrote:
Thank you for the pointers, Nick.
I share your concern about why root MSE was not included in svy:,
and I hope
someone will shed some light on that.
--Rich
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Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2007 11:10 AM
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Subject: RE: st: Standard error of the estimate for svy: reg
Well, the root mean square is best not
described as an "average". It is evidently
a kind of average, but a more precise description
is easy enough.
After a model you can use -predict- to get at residuals
and then run -summarize- (and anything else
needed) to get whatever summary measures you want.
Essentially the same issue for -glm- is
addressed by -glmcorr- on SSC.
Apart from doing it by hand, most of the code
in -glmcorr- might be used for your problem.
However, a much bigger question is this: Why did the
writers of -svy: reg- not provide this? Perhaps
they were queasy about what summary measure(s)
are justifiable in a -svy:- context. I don't
know, but that's what you need to worry about.
Nick
[email protected]
Richard Forshee
Steven, this measure is also called the root mean squared
error (which is
reported in the -reg- command but not in the -svy: reg-
command), and it
measures the average deviation of a predicted value from the
actual observed
value in the sample.
Steven Samuels
I don't have access to this journal. My question: standard error of
WHAT estimate?
Richard Forshee
A recent article in my field encourages reporting both the R-
squared and the
Standard Error of the Estimate (or Root MSE). (James S. Krueger
and Michael
S. Lewis-Beck. Goodness-of-Fit: R-Squared, SEE and 'Best
Practice'. The
Political Methodologist, vol. 15, no. 1, pp 2-4. 2007)
When I run a svy: reg command, I do not see the SEE (or Root MSE)
reported.
I checked ereturn list, and I did not see anything that
appeared to
be the
SEE. Is there a way calculate the SEE when running a svy: reg
command?
Maybe it could be derived using the predict , stdp postestimation
command?
Or is there a reason that SEE is not appropriate in the context of
a svy:
reg command?
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