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Fardad,
(a) -xtreg, robust- changes the standard errors without changing the point estimate. This is a sort of White standard error correction. Here you believe that your results are right but the inference could be misleading.
(b) -xtgls- and -xtpcse- are some kind of GLS estimator. However, the assumptions behing each one of them are different. As a rule of thumb -xtgls- provides smaller std errors than -xtpcse- then later is prefered if you are willing to use GLS. I am not a fan of GLS estimators. In those you must impose some structure to the model that could be complete wrong. That structure affects point estimates!
(c) -xthtaylor- is an IV estimator with random effect. It is a special case of -xtreg, re- when you have some endogenous variables which could be time invariant.
I suggest to have in hand Longitudinal Panel Data manual (StataCorp) and Econometric Analysis of Cross Section and Panel Data (Wooldrige, 2002). Try to get a sense of what you need for your problem and repost your question giving some brief reference of your empirical application.
HTH, Rodrigo.
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De: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] En nombre de Fardad Zand
Enviado el: Miércoles, 05 de Noviembre de 2008 09:48 a.m.
Para: [email protected]
Asunto: st: xtreg vs. xtgls vs. xtpcse vs. xthtaylor
Dear listers,
I couldn't figure out exactly what the difference is between
(a) xtreg, vce(robust) cluster(id)
(b) xtgls
(c) xtpcse
(d)xthtaylor
To my knowledge they all try to correct some form of heteroskedasticity or panel specific correlations. But it is not clear to me where and when each option is best to use.
Moreover, after you run a model on panel data, how can you check:
(1) heteroskedasticity
(2) auto-correlation
(3) endogeneity
(4) multicollinearity
One probably need the above information to decide what model/estimator to use.
I really appreciate your time and supporting me in my research.
Good luck to all of you,
Fardad
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