Re: st: Statistical tests under heteroskedasticity

[Christopher Baum <kit.baum@bc.edu>]

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On May 15, 2012, at 2:33 AM, Lukas wrote:

> I use Stata 11.2 and I want to run several statistical tests to analyse my regression results. In my regression, I use the -robust- option but now I became aware, that heteroskedasticity invalidates my statistical tests such as hypothesis tests as well. 
> 
> Is there a way to run the -ttest- and -testparm- commands under heteroskedasticity without invalidating their results?

Calculating robust standard errors -- or more properly, a robust VCE -- 'robustifies' all computations done with that VCE, including t-tests and F-tests. So if the only departure from i.i.d. errors is heteroskedasticity, the 'robust' option makes all subsequent test, testparm, lincom, etc. valid.

Kit


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