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st: Confidence interval for the coefficients
From
Thomas Speidel <[email protected]>
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st: Confidence interval for the coefficients
Date
Tue, 27 Jul 2010 09:54:28 -0600
I am sure this has been asked before, but my search did not reveal any
hits in the archive. Why is the following happening:
. sysuse auto, clear
. reg mpg weight
Source | SS df MS Number of obs
= 74
-------------+------------------------------ F( 1, 72) = 134.62
Model | 1591.9902 1 1591.9902 Prob > F
= 0.0000
Residual | 851.469256 72 11.8259619 R-squared
= 0.6515
-------------+------------------------------ Adj R-squared = 0.6467
Total | 2443.45946 73 33.4720474 Root MSE
= 3.4389
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
mpg | Coef. Std. Err. t P>|t| [95% Conf.
Interval]
-------------+----------------------------------------------------------------
weight | -.0060087 .0005179 -11.60 0.000 -.0070411
-.0049763
_cons | 39.44028 1.614003 24.44 0.000 36.22283
42.65774
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
. di _b[weight] - 1.96 * _se[weight]
-.00702373
. di _b[weight] + 1.96 * _se[weight]
-.00499365
Why -.00702373 != -.0070411 and -.00499365 != -.0049763 ? Rounding off
error/computer precision? --
Thomas Speidel
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