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Re: st: Normally distributed error term & testing normality of residuals
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"Justina Fischer" <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Normally distributed error term & testing normality of residuals
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Sun, 14 Oct 2012 13:59:32 +0200
Maybe this was already said, but there is also the command -hettest-
Justina
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> Datum: Sun, 14 Oct 2012 12:53:46 +0100
> Von: Nick Cox <[email protected]>
> An: [email protected]
> Betreff: Re: st: Normally distributed error term & testing normality of residuals
> No one said that. You can plot the residuals, or their squares, or
> their absolute values, or roots of absolute values -- there are
> arguments for each -- against anything of interest, e.g. a predictor
> or fitted values. See e.g.
>
> SJ-4-4 gr0009 . . . . . . . . . . Speaking Stata: Graphing model
> diagnostics
> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . N. J.
> Cox
> (help anovaplot, indexplot, modeldiag, ofrtplot, ovfplot,
> qfrplot, racplot, rdplot, regplot, rhetplot, rvfplot2,
> rvlrplot, rvpplot2 if installed)
> Q4/04 SJ 4(4):449--475
> plotting diagnostic information calculated from residuals
> and fitted values from regression models with continuous
> responses
>
> for one broad discussion. That paper says nothing specific about
> -tobit- models, however.
>
> On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 9:54 AM, Ebru Ozturk <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > Thank you. So, there is no possibility to check heteroscedasticity
> graphically?
> >
> > Ebru
> >
> > ----------------------------------------
> >> Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2012 18:25:14 -0400
> >> Subject: Re: st: Normally distributed error term & testing normality of
> residuals
> >> From: [email protected]
> >> To: [email protected]
> >>
> >> On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 1:39 PM, Ebru Ozturk <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >> > With default do you mean without robust standard error or something
> else?
> >> >
> >> Yes, the default is OIM.
> >>
> >>
> >> > ----------------------------------------
> >> >> Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2012 11:57:59 -0400
> >> >> Subject: Re: st: Normally distributed error term & testing normality
> of residuals
> >> >> From: [email protected]
> >> >> To: [email protected]
> >> >>
> >> >> On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 11:41 AM, Ebru Ozturk
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> >> > Thank you very much. One last question altough it is slightly
> different from the main issue:
> >> >> >
> >> >> > In order to test heteroscedasticity assumption can I use scatter
> plots etc? or do I need to use a formal test like for testing normality
> issue?
> >> >>
> >> >> I think I'd probably use both, as the test just says "there appears
> to
> >> >> be heteroscedasticity" but doesn't tell you much about what it might
> >> >> be. One other quick and cheap diagnoser of heteroscedasticity is to
> >> >> run with robust standard errors and with default. If they appear to
> >> >> differ much, that's a sign you have a problem.
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