Hypothesis test memo no. 1

Posted in Social Science notes on May 4th, 2024 Comments Off

1. R2 is the coefficient of determination, which is the square of the Pearson correlation coefficient, r, the formula for which is ρ=β1(σx/σy), where β1 is the parameter estimate. ASCI and Unicode text does not have a circumflex, ^, on top of the β. For this documentation the objective is multiplatform long-term readability so an equation [...]

My Favorite Function

Posted in Computing Notes on May 25th, 2019 Comments Off

My favorite function of all time is varsoc in Stata.  That’s saying a lot because I have been working with computers for decades and have written software in several languages, used many different types of administrative software tool sets, and owned a lot of books with code in them.  Varsoc regresses one variable, y, upon another variable, [...]