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Re: st: negative variance after gb2fit
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Michal Brzezinski <[email protected]>
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Re: st: negative variance after gb2fit
Date
Tue, 3 Jul 2012 23:41:34 +0200
I think that there is a typo in gb2fit in calculating variance for the
fitted model.
Lines 236-239 of gb2fit are:
eret scalar var = `b'*`b'*exp(lngamma(1+2/`a')) ///
*exp(lngamma(`q'-2/`a')) ///
/( exp(lngamma(`p'))*exp(lngamma(`q')) ) ///
- (`e(mean)'*`e(mean)')
"1" in the first line should be replaced with "p", so that the correct
expression for variance is:
eret scalar var = `b'*`b'*exp(lngamma(`p'+2/`a')) ///
*exp(lngamma(`q'-2/`a')) ///
/( exp(lngamma(`p'))*exp(lngamma(`q')) ) ///
- (`e(mean)'*`e(mean)')
I hope that this helps with your problem.
Michal Brzezinski
University of Warsaw
Faculty of Economic Sciences
2012/7/2 Lucia Latino <[email protected]>:
> Dear statalist,
>
> I tried to fit data on household food consumption to a generalized beta of
> second kind using 'gb2fit' command.
>
> gb2fit dec, stats cdf(gb2cdf) pdf(gb2pdf) svy
>
> I obtained a negative variance. How is it possible? What does it tell me?
>
> If it is useful, notice that the sample was drawn using a two-stage
> stratified sampling procedure which I took into account by svyset my data.
> I hope you can help me.
>
> Thank you very much
>
> Lucia
>
>
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