[R] extend summary.lm for hccm?

Dirk Eddelbuettel edd at debian.org
Sun Dec 24 05:16:04 CET 2006


On 23 December 2006 at 20:46, ivo welch wrote:
| I wonder whether it is possible to extend the summary method for the
| lm function, so that it uses an option "hccm" (well, model "hc0").  In
| my line of work, it is pretty much required in reporting of almost all
| linear regressions these days, which means that it would be very nice
| not to have to manually library car, then sqrt the diagonal, and
| recompute T-stats; instead, I would love to get everything in the same
| format as the current output---except errors heteroskedasticity
| adjusted.
| 
| easy or hard?

Did you consider the 'sandwich' package? A simple

	> install.packages("sandwich")
	> library(sandwich)
	> ?vcovHC
	> ?vcovHAC
	
should get you there.

Dirk

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