--- "Bell, Jacqueline S." <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm using lincom in conjunction with svy:mean and getting standard
> errors for the difference between 2 estimates that are smaller than
> the individual SEs. This doesn't seem right given that var(A-B) =
> varA+varB. Can someone tell me what is going on?
That is because var(A-B) = var(A) + var(B) - 2cov(A,B) .
Hope this helps,
Maarten
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Maarten L. Buis
Department of Social Research Methodology
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Boelelaan 1081
1081 HV Amsterdam
The Netherlands
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+31 20 5986715
http://home.fsw.vu.nl/m.buis/
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