Notice: On April 23, 2014, Statalist moved from an email list to a forum, based at statalist.org.
| From | Stas Kolenikov <skolenik@gmail.com> |
| To | statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu |
| Subject | Re: st: Constructing a variable from standard deviations |
| Date | Mon, 22 Nov 2010 14:33:08 -0600 |
On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 9:58 AM, Maarten buis <maartenbuis@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > --- On Mon, 22/11/10, M.P.J. van Zaal wrote: >> I am inclining to agree with mr Kolenikov, because the >> study i am (partly) replicating in my thesis does use OLS >> estimates. > As I just mentioned I am not against Stas' argument, but I > do not find the fact that there exists a publication that > also uses it a convincing argument: A lot of mistakes get > published and many get perpetuated using exactly this > argument. [SIGH] This is so true. I published two papers basically crying, "NO!!! You should not do your analysis the way they've done it in [a certain paper]!!! And here is why." -- Stas Kolenikov, also found at http://stas.kolenikov.name Small print: I use this email account for mailing lists only. * * 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/