Hello, everyone. I am facing a statistical
"challenge" that must be commonplace as microdata
becomes more and more accessible. I have been
estimating models using xtreg, as I have people
coming and going monthly over about a two year period.
Some estimates significant, others not.
But, if the people in the "sample" are the entire
population that I am inferring to, conventional
measures of significance seem inapprpriate. But, I
have never read any social science that presents
regression estimates, and then says something along
the lines of, "These are what they are. Significance
doesn't apply here."
So...
-Am I roughly correct?
-Is there some other measure of "certainty" that might
be informative in these situations?
-Is there a name for this type of "sample" or
estimation issue? Googling it has been a real
challenge, though there must be lots of
writing/commenting on this matter.
Thanks for your thoughts. Lloyd Dumont
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