Re: st: xtreg, fe and xtlogit, fe

[Maarten Buis <maartenlbuis@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 10:36 PM, natasha agarwal wrote:
> I did the xtreg model without the clustering of standard errors and it
> still gives me the same result.

That should be no surprise, as robust and clustered standard errors
only change the standard errors and leave the point estimates
unchanged, see [U] 20.16 (in the Stata 11 Users manual).

> But I guess you are right different
> models with different assumptions can altogether yield different
> results.

As I said before it is a very specific assumption: linear probability
models compare groups by looking differences in probabilities while
logistic regression models compare groups by looking at ratios of
odds. A ratio is a relative effect, while a difference is an absolute
effect. Both can be meaningful, but they can easily lead to apparently
different conclussions. Notice that this difference only apparent, you
can and should find out how these two findings fit together. Looking
at many graphs of predicted probabilities and odds, like Nick
suggested, is often helpful.

Hope this helps,
Maarten


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