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- From: iwelch@agsm.ucla.edu (Ivo Welch)
- Newsgroups: sci.math.stat
- Subject: Re: SAS: White Heteroskedasticity-Consistent Standard Errors Wanted
- Message-ID: <1993Jan4.112016.12341@mic.ucla.edu>
- Date: 4 Jan 93 19:20:15 GMT
- References: <1992Dec28.222415.19246@mic.ucla.edu> <1992Dec29.102446.25292@mic.ucla.edu>
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- Well, let me correct my last statement(s).
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- Yes, SAS can compute the White (1980) heteroskedasticity-adjusted
- covariance matrix. However, it can
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- neither [a] output this matrix to a data set for further processing
- nor [b] use it to compute White se's or T-stats
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- Essentially, this procedure is infeasible for anything but small data
- problems. If you have 2,000 coefficients, be prepared to wade through 4
- million numbers, and compute the square root of 2,000 of them by hand.
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- (Of course, I could start learning IML programming, and compute everything
- myself. However, if I have to program, my preference is to do so in other
- languages [e.g. C, Fortran, Gauss,...] instead.)
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- /ivo welch
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