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st: Testing equality of 2 coefficients after FE regression: How does Stata compute the Pooled SE and test statistic?
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andreas nordset <[email protected]>
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st: Testing equality of 2 coefficients after FE regression: How does Stata compute the Pooled SE and test statistic?
Date
Wed, 8 Dec 2010 11:15:18 +0100
Dear all,
after estimating a FE model, I am testing the equality of two coefficients.
The difference between them is about 3000 and the SE in the regression
output are respectively 1700 and 1600. I would thus have thought that
the test statistic should be
t = 3000/sqrt(1700^2+1600^) =1.29, insufficient to reject the Null
that the two coefficients are identical.
Yet --test coeff1=coef2-- gives me F(1,1386)=6.01 and hence Prob
>F=0.0143, thus rejecting the Null at the 5% confidence level.
So I'm wondering why this is: Does Stata use smaller within-person
standard errors for the test, given that the regression is a FE
regression? If so, should I also use such smaller SEs (rather than
those displayed next to the coefficients in the standard regression
output) for plotting the coefficients?
Thanks a lot,
Andreas
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