On 14-May-08 09:11:31, Achim Zeileis wrote: > On Wed, 14 May 2008, Mike Ryckman wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I am trying to run a negative binomial regression model in R and >> can't get the standard errors to match the output I get from the >> Stata nbreg command. I've tried a few different options but >> haven't had much luck. The closest I've found is: >> >> gamlss(formula, family = NBI, sigma.formula = ~ 1,data=dataframe) >> >> ...But this is still a little off most of the time and pretty far off >> at >> other >> times (compared with the Stata output). The glm.nb from the MASS >> package >> produces the correct coefficients, but different (usually very >> different) >> standard errors. >> >> Could anybody explain this and point me in the right direction? I'd >> really >> appreciate it. > > Well, you don't really give us enough information to know (a > reproducible > R example and the desired standard errors from Stata would have been > helpful). My guess is that Stata uses some sort of "robust" standard > errors, i.e., sandwich standard errors. Try something like: > library("MASS") > library("sandwich") > library("lmtest") > fm <- glm.nb(...) > coeftest(fm, vcov = sandwich) > > See also the following thread for some more discussion for count data > regression in R and Stata: > https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2008-May/161640.html
Better links for following this thread are: Start: https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2008-May/161591.html Then click on "Next message:" for the second. Unfortunately, at that point the thread broke (Paul next responded to the list as a reply to an off-list message I sent him). So to continue, next take Achim's URL above: https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2008-May/161640.html and thereafter continue to click on "Next message:" until the thread runs out. That was a very helpful thread, for me! Best wishes, Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 14-May-08 Time: 10:38:24 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------ ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.