Do you have observations for variable x beyond 1990? If so then -predict-
should give you out of sample predictions. In general, -predict- calculates
the requested statistic for all possible observations, whether they were
used in the model or not.
In the example below, the model is estimated on data up to 1980q1, but the
predicted values go to 1990q4.
. use http://www.stata-press.com/data/r9/wpi1.dta, clear
. arch ln_wpi if tin(,1980q1), arch(1) garch(1) nolog
BFGS stepping has contracted, resetting BFGS Hessian (0)
ARCH family regression
Sample: 1960q1 to 1980q1 Number of obs = 81
Wald chi2(.) = .
Log likelihood = 85.18144 Prob > chi2 = .
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
| OPG
ln_wpi | Coef. Std. Err. z P>|z| [95% Conf.
Interval]
-------------+--------------------------------------------------------------
ln_wpi |
_cons | 3.423398 .0011066 3093.53 0.000 3.421229
3.425567
-------------+--------------------------------------------------------------
ARCH |
arch |
L1. | 1.137414 .630359 1.80 0.071 -.0980673
2.372895
garch |
L1. | .0000419 .1747459 0.00 1.000 -.3424538
.3425376
_cons | 7.66e-06 3.41e-06 2.25 0.025 9.76e-07
.0000144
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
. predict y, y
. l in -5/l
+--------------------------------------+
| wpi t ln_wpi y |
|--------------------------------------|
120. | 109.4 1989q4 4.695011 3.423398 |
121. | 111 1990q1 4.70953 3.423398 |
122. | 110.8 1990q2 4.707727 3.423398 |
123. | 112.8 1990q3 4.725616 3.423398 |
124. | 116.2 1990q4 4.755313 3.423398 |
+--------------------------------------+
Scott
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:owner-
> [email protected]] On Behalf Of F. Gao
> Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2005 10:20 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: st: How to let Arch give out of sample prediction??
>
> Dear all,
>
> I am using arch command to estimate a time series for a subset of
> years, and hoping to get predicted values for fitted values as well as
> the conditional variance out of sample (after 1990). I only get the
> in-sample predictions somehow. Here is what I did
>
> arch y x if year<1990, archm arch(1) garch(1)
>
> predict yhat
>
> predict cond_var, variance
>
> Can anyone tell me why the last two commands would not give out of
> sample predicitons? Thanks!
>
> Faye Gao
>
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