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Re: st: Fw: Multiple One-Tailed Tests
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Steve Samuels <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Fw: Multiple One-Tailed Tests
Date
Wed, 7 Jul 2010 20:11:43 -0400
I should have added that -ellip- is by Anders Alexandersson and that
it is described in a free Stata Journal article
http://www.stata-journal.com/sjpdf.html?articlenum=gr32_1
Steve
On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 8:00 PM, Steve Samuels <[email protected]> wrote:
> The joint confidence interval for the coefficients is an ellipse, and
> can be plotted with the package -ellip- (-findit-) at SSC. -ellip-
> only works after -regress-.
>
> **************CODE BEGINS**********
> sysuse auto, clear
> gen wt1000 = weight/1000
> reg mpg rep78 wt1000
> ellip rep78 wt1000 coef xline(0) yline(0)
> *************CODE ENDS******
>
> Steve
>
> On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 6:34 PM, Airey, David C
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> .
>>
>> Because each coefficient is tested with the symmetric t distribution, we can make both of those alpha/2. And then their joint test, is what is wanted.
>>
>> Thanks for clarifying that one, Roger and Maarten.
>>
>>
>> --- On Wed, 7/7/10, Bea Potter asked:
>>> > Given the following regression,
>>> >
>>> > y = b0 + b1 x1 + b2 x2 + u
>>> >
>>> > we want to test whether we can reject b1>0 and
>>> > b2<0.
>>
>> --- On Wed, 7/7/10, Airey, David C answered:
>>> The joint test is the F statistic for the model, since b1
>>> and b2 are the only coefficients. So isn't it just alpha/2?
>>
>> If I remember correctly the alpha/2 trick works because the
>> distribution of the test statistic (t distribution or normal
>> distribution) is symetric. This is not the case for the
>> F-distribution.
>>
>> I had a look at this issue a while back, and it turned out
>> not to be an easy problem. I'd love to be proven wrong
>> though.
>>
>> -- Maarten
>>
>>
>>
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