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Article #790Re: SAS: White Heteroskedasticity-Consistent Standard Errors Wanted
From: Ronald Schoenberg
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1993 23:51
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1993 23:51
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In article <1993Jan4.112016.12341@mic.ucla.edu> iwelch@agsm.ucla.edu (Ivo Welch) writes: > >Well, let me correct my last statement(s). > > Yes, SAS can compute the White (1980) heteroskedasticity-adjusted > covariance matrix. However, it can > > neither [a] output this matrix to a data set for further processing > nor [b] use it to compute White se's or T-stats > >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. > >(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.) > >/ivo welch My order of preference would be Gauss, C++, Fortran. And you can order Gauss with LINREG which computes Het.-Cons. standard errors for single and multiple equation regression, and MAXLIK which will do the same for user provided likelihood functions. -- Ronald Schoenberg fax: 206-727-6521 University of Washington email: rons@u.washington.edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!ogicse!news.u.washington.edu!hardy.u.washington.edu!rons From: rons@hardy.u.washington.edu (Ronald Schoenberg) Newsgroups: sci.math.stat Subject: Re: SAS: White Heteroskedasticity-Consistent Standard Errors Wanted Message-ID: <1iaihiINN7og@shelley.u.washington.edu> Date: 4 Jan 93 23:51:14 GMT Article-I.D.: shelley.1iaihiINN7og References: <1992Dec28.222415.19246@mic.ucla.edu> <1992Dec29.102446.25292@mic.ucla.edu> <1993Jan4.112016.12341@mic.ucla.edu> Organization: University of Washington, Seattle Lines: 29 NNTP-Posting-Host: hardy.u.washington.edu