Re: st: Fw: Multiple One-Tailed Tests

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

I don't know why anybody would want to do a 1-tailed test, except if the 
distribution of the test statistic, under the null hypothesis, really IS 
one-tailed. However, you can calculate a conservative joint confidence 
region for b1 and b2 by typing
regress y x1 x2
regress, level(97.5)

The second -regress- command will produce Bonferroni-corrected 97.5% 
confidence intervals for b1 and b2, whose Cartesian product is a 
conservative rectangular confidence region for the vector parameter 
(b1,b2). If the 97.5% confidence interval for b1 is all below zero and 
the 97.5% confidence interval for b2 is all above zero, then our 
rectangular confidence interval has excluded all possibilities where 
b1>0 and b2<0.
I hope this helps.

Best wishes

Roger


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On 07/07/2010 16:48, Bea Potter wrote:
> I think this must be an easy question but I can't find the answer anywhere on
> Statalist.
>
> Given the following regression,
>
> y = b0 + b1 x1 + b2 x2 + u
>
> we want to test whether we can reject b1>0 and b2<0. Unfortunately, it seems
> that the Stata test command only allows me to implement the two-tailed version
> (b1=0 and b2=0). I have found some code that allows me b1>0 OR b2<0 but not both
>
> jointly.
>
> Thank you in advance for any suggestions.
>
>
>
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