Re: st: outreg2 and incorrect asterisks?

[Cassie Hartzog <chartzog-06@pacbell.net>]

I've run into the same problem under much the same conditions: outreg2 
is called after a mim, storebv: svy: logit command, and I also specify 
the alpha(0.001, 0.01, 0.05) option on outreg2. Sometimes it appears 
that one fewer star is being printed than the p-value warrants, but I 
have also seen it print the correct number of stars for a p-value of 
.033. There never seem to be too many stars.

I'm using restricted data that I can't share, but will see if I can 
reproduce the problem using a publicly accessible dataset.

-cassie

> I am running a logistic regression with multiply-imputed data and 
> using the svy: command for complex survey data. I then use outreg2 to 
> send the output into a table. For statistical significance, I am 
> setting 3 levels .05, .01., and .001. Everything works fine, but a few 
> of the results have asterisks that do not match the P-value that is 
> listed in the raw stata output. In the example below, the P value is 
> 3.07 in the raw output...but only 1 asterisk shows up on the outreg2 
> table that is produced. I can easily check and change these by 
> hand...but I am wondering why this mismatch may be occurring and if I 
> am missing something conceptually.
>
> Here is the syntax:
>
> mim,storebv: svy:logit money_action par_exp4 par_aspr4 par_bach 
> grandpar_bach age_parent income_ten_thou numkids ///
> female asian hispanic black par_nativeng parttime nowork catholic 
> private ///
> par_involv heldback ztest_score daycare nursery headstart kinder, or
>
> outreg2 using moneyaction-0915, se replace ef alpha(0.001, 0.01, 0.05) 
> bdec(3) tdec(3) rdec(3) word
>
> Here is the raw output of the "nursery" variable:
>
> money_action | Odds Rat.  Std. Err.     t    P>|t|    [95% Conf. 
> Int.]   MI.df
>  nursery |   1.17315   .061089    3.07   0.002     1.0587  1.29997   
> 211.7
>
> here is the row in the outreg2 table:
> nursery      1.173*


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