Re: st: heteroskedasticity test in panel data

["Michael N. Mitchell" <Michael.Norman.Mitchell@gmail.com>]

Dear Jing

  Based on your example, it looks like you could do this...

. xtgls..., igls panels (heteroskedastic)
. estimates store hetero
. xtgls...
. display e(N_g)-1

  The last command will show, I believe, the number of groups minus 1. It looks like your 
example uses this for the degrees of freedom. Say that number was 157. You could then type

. lrtest hetero ., df (157)

  and it looks like it would use 157 as the df. I am out of my element here, so I trust 
that someone else will correct me if I am off base. But I hope this helps.

Michael N. Mitchell
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On 2010-07-26 9.58 PM, Jing Zhou wrote:
> thank you Michael, for the command "lrtest hetero ., df ('df')", how can i get the value of df?
>
> Jing
>
> > > > "Michael N. Mitchell"<Michael.Norman.Mitchell@gmail.com>  27/07/2010 2:23 pm>>>
> Greetings
>
>     I wonder if this would help...
>
> . set matsize 800
>
>     (or select another number in place of 800).
>
> Hope that helps,
>
> Michael N. Mitchell
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>
>
> On 2010-07-26 7.57 PM, Jing Zhou wrote:
> > Dear All,
> >
> > I am going to test the heteroskedasticity in my panel data. by using the recommended commands on FAQ which are specified as:
> >
> > xtgls..., igls panels (heteroskedastic)
> > estimates store hetero
> > xtgls...
> > local df=e (N_g)-1
> > lrtest hetero., df ('df')
> >
> > the result shows wrong information as "matsize too small - should be at least 621". Could you please advise me what is the potential cause to this problem? and how can i refine it?
> >
> > Many thanks!
> >
> > Jing
> >
> >
> >
> >
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