Re: st: comparing differences in Kendall's tau or Spearman's coefficient using somersd

[Roger Newson <r.newson@imperial.ac.uk>]

As I understand it, you are trying to measure the tau-a correlation 
between "Efficiency definition 1" (ED1) in Year A and ED1 in Year B, and 
then measure the tau-a correlation between "Efficiency Definition 2" 
(ED2) in Year A and ED2 in Year B, and then calculate a confidence 
interval for the difference between the 2 taus.

The somersd package unfortunately does not yet do this, The examples in 
the manual are more similar to the case where there is a third 
efficiency definition (ED3), which is thought too be a "gold standard". 
We would then compare the tau-a between ED3 and ED1 with the tau-a 
between ED3 and ED2, and find out which is greater.

To do what you want to do, the best answer will be to use either the 
jackknife or the bootstrap. Both of these are available in Stata. 
However, your query has drawn attention to an important limitation of 
the -somersd- package. It would be an improvement if -somersd- could 
output the delta-jackknife pseudovalues or the delta-jackknife influence 
function to an output dataset (or resultsset) with 1 observation per 
cluster and data on the pseudovalues or influence function. This is one 
of many improvements I would like to make to -somersd- when I have the time.

I hope this helps.

Best wishes

Roger


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On 25/04/2010 19:11, Chong, Qi Lin Andrew wrote:
> The scores are bounded from 1 to infinity, and a half-normal
> distribution has been assumed for them in the original stochastic
> frontier (and a normal distribution for the errors). A score of say
> 1.25 indicates a firm incurs 25% more costs than the most efficient
> firm it can be compared
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