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From | Maarten buis <maartenbuis@yahoo.co.uk> |
To | statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu |
Subject | Re: st: equality across quantile regressions WITHOUT sqreg |
Date | Mon, 27 Sep 2010 13:49:25 +0000 (GMT) |
--- On Mon, 27/9/10, Lim, Raymond wrote: > Can I test equality of coefficients across different > quantile regressions (.25 .50 .75) manually after running > qreg? If so, would the calculation be the usual "coefficient > +or- 1.96*SE" and see whether the 95% confidence intervals > overlap? Unfortunately no, that method never works. Basically you are missing the covariance of the joint sampling distribution. Hope this helps, Maarten -------------------------- Maarten L. Buis Institut fuer Soziologie Universitaet Tuebingen Wilhelmstrasse 36 72074 Tuebingen Germany http://www.maartenbuis.nl -------------------------- * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search * http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/