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Re: st: correction for within panel serial correlation in standard errors
From
Stas Kolenikov <[email protected]>
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Subject
Re: st: correction for within panel serial correlation in standard errors
Date
Fri, 20 Apr 2012 15:02:49 -0500
On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 2:49 PM, Yogesh Uppal
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I want to check sensitivity of my results with respect to possible
> within-panel serial correlation in a sample for 50 US states over 28
> years.
>
> I am trying following methods to compute the standard errors: cluster,
> xtscc, bootstrapping.
>
> I have a few questions regarding each of these:
>
> 1) How do I determine which of these methods is more suited to my data?
>
> 2) While bootstrapping SEs, is there a method to determine the optimal
> number of repetitions?
Your bootstrap must respect the existing correlations structure,
otherwise, your standard errors will be too small. I talked about
survey bootstraps with Stata in
http://stata-journal.com/article.html?article=st0187.
If the various methods give you wildly different answers, you should
not trust any. Correctly implemented, the cluster standard errors and
the bootstrap standard errors should be about the same.
--
Stas Kolenikov, also found at http://stas.kolenikov.name
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