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Re: st: Testing the null that the intercepts are equal.


From   Rebecca Pope <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: Testing the null that the intercepts are equal.
Date   Sun, 16 Dec 2012 12:38:04 -0600

Hi David,
See this FAQ from Bill Gould at StataCorp:
http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/statistics/pooling-data-and-chow-tests/

It addresses your question about testing, but also larger relevant
issues about "pooling" data that you might find helpful here.

Rebecca

<[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm trying to test whether the null hypothesis that the intercepts are equal to determine if the data should be pooled.  I have a panel dataset.  What I found is the test command.
>
> I used the command:
>
>  test corrupt pcgdp_ln SP_POP_GROW
>
> where each one of the above variables are my independent variables.  Is that the proper test, and if it is, did I perform the proper syntax?
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