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Martin said, quoting another respondent:
"Then, you would need to run your -testparm- 3 separate times: one for
Var1/Var2, another for Var1/Var3, and a third for Var2/Var3."
See my code segment in my earlier code:
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webuse highschool, clear
svy: regress weight height state county school
test he=sch
test he=state,accum
test scho=state,accum
For one thing this is an obsolete (but acceptable) form of -test-. It
can also be written
test (height = school) (height = state) (school = state)
but this misses the point, made in my earlier posting, that there are
NOT 3 tests to be performed, but two. Thus the parsimonious form of
this joint test is merely
test height = state = school
which properly shows that there are two constraints to be applied to
the parameter vector. I teach students that the number of constraints
in a test is the number of equals signs you must write down to specify
it properly. In this case the latter form shows 2, which is right,
rather than 3.
I deplore the use of abbreviated variable names in posted examples.
IMHO -set varabbrev on- is a terrible idea (whether or not it is the
official default*), and examples should run with it off.
Kit
* As for software developers' omniscience in the definition of default
settings, remember that Windows developers argued for some time that
leaving a crucial security setting OFF by default was better for their
users because they wouldn't have to figure out how to change it.
Kit Baum, Boston College Economics and DIW Berlin
http://ideas.repec.org/e/pba1.html
An Introduction to Modern Econometrics Using Stata:
http://www.stata-press.com/books/imeus.html
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