Hi folks,
In trying to answer questions from some of my students, I did the following (using the
data set "food.gdt" from Hill et al):
1) define x1 = 1/x
2) wls x1 y 0 x, save residuals uhat1
3) define ystar = y/sqrt(x), cstar = 1/sqrt(x), xstar = x/sqrt(x) (ie, wls "by
hand")
4) ols ystar cstar xstar, save residuals uhat2
(I actually used the gui, but replicated this with the console)
I was surprised to find that uhat1 and uhat2 are different, even though the coefficient
estimates are exactly the same. In fact, uhat2 = cstar*uhat1. Is this intended?
Thanks!
PS
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Dr. Peter Summers
Assistant Professor
Department of Economics
Texas Tech University
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