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re: st: test multiplicity and use of F or Chi2 distributions after ANOVA or regress
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"Airey, David C" <[email protected]>
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re: st: test multiplicity and use of F or Chi2 distributions after ANOVA or regress
Date
Mon, 21 Jun 2010 16:41:00 -0500
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Just found the FAQ:
http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/stat/wald.html
> In doing some ANOVAs and using different approaches for post-hoc tests of interaction simple main effects, I noticed that use of the Chi2 and F distributions are the same when appropriately scaled, but their p-values differ.
>
> . display chi2tail(2,45.26)
> 1.486e-10
>
> . display Ftail(2,30,22.63)
> 1.019e-06
>
> I'm told when df2 -> infinity, Ftail(df1,df2,F) = chi2tail(df,x). Also, smaller F and Chi2 statistics have more comparable p-values.
>
> While the discrepant p-values did not impact my conclusion, I'm assuming when one is stuck in a multiple test situation (100s of tests), when it pays to know if the probability is 1e-5 or 1e-10, that using the F distribution following ANOVA or regression is the right way to go?
>
> Is there a good reason -test- after -margins- after -regress- or -ANOVA- reverts to use of the Chi2 distribution, or is it convenient because margins get used after other than regression?
>
> -Dave
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