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RE: st: margins vs. lincom
From
Maarten buis <[email protected]>
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Subject
RE: st: margins vs. lincom
Date
Thu, 16 Dec 2010 15:44:40 +0000 (GMT)
--- On Thu, 16/12/10, Weichle, Thomas wrote:
> For the 95% C.I. using the z-distribution, the multiplier
> is 1.96 as we are all familiar. But using the t-distribution,
> the multiplier is 2.0484071 as produced by Stata's
> invttail(n, p) function where n is the degrees of freedom and
> p is the probability.
For the z statistic you can also be more precise than 1.96 using
-invnormal(.975)-
-- Maarten
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Maarten L. Buis
Institut fuer Soziologie
Universitaet Tuebingen
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http://www.maartenbuis.nl
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