I would start reading about ANOVA and ANCOVA with fixed and random effects.
Regards,
Carlos
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 6:15 PM, Susan Olivia <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear Stata list,
>
> I have the following model y[ch] = x’[ch]beta + u[ch]
> and u[ch] = eta[c] + e[ch],
>
> where c corresponds to location ‘c’ and h corresponds to
> household ‘h’. In other words, the error term can be
> thought of the error due to the location component and the
> household component.
>
>
> I would like to decompose the total variance due to these
> two effects. Can I get any advice how to tackle this issue?
>
> At first sight, I thought this model is similar to that of
> random effects, but we’re dealing in space rather than
> time dimension.
>
>
> Any insights on this are much appreciated. As I still have a
> lot to learn on Stata.
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
>
>
> Susan
>
>
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