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Re: st: question about Weighted Least Square(WLS)
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Wu Zhang <[email protected]>
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Re: st: question about Weighted Least Square(WLS)
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Tue, 2 Apr 2013 17:28:05 -0700 (PDT)
Hi Rich,
That really helps. Thank you very much!
By the way, I could run the WLS as the GLS like this:
gen xstar=x/sqrt(exp(v))
gen ystar=y/sqrt(exp(v))
reg ystar xstar
So the parameter estimates should be the same as method 1 and 2, right? But in my case, they are different.
P.S.:
> 1. regress y x [aweight = 1/exp(v)]
>
> 2. vwls y x , sd(sqrt(exp(v)))
I am very confused .
Thanks again,
Wu
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From: Richard Goldstein <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Tuesday, April 2, 2013 4:16 PM
Subject: Re: st: question about Weighted Least Square(WLS)
this is discussed, briefly, on pp. 2305-2306 of [R] vwls
Rich
On 4/2/13 4:01 PM, Wu Zhang wrote:
>
> Hi folks,
>
> I run two versions of WLS:
>
> 1. regress y x [aweight = 1/exp(v)]
>
> 2. vwls y x , sd(sqrt(exp(v)))
>
> The estimates of parameters are exactly the same, while the standard errors are totally different: the ratio of the two standard errors for each estimate is a constant. Could someone explain how those result would happen?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Wu
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