Thanks. The -rolling- experts have got something
to work on. By the way, tech support does not
function at weekends.
You could try running your program by hand to see
if you can work out where the difficulty lies, within
your program or in -rolling-.
Nick
[email protected]
[email protected]
> By "doesn't seem to work well" I mean:
>
> When I tested the code on balanced panel with individuals with 30
> years of data each, rho was saved for all the regressions for each
> individual in the separate file (roll.dta) but what happened is
> residuals and predicted values were computed for the first
> individual for most years only, it put missing values for some
> years(though data for both dependent and independent vars existed
> for all these years). I then have data for residuals and predicted
> values for those missing years only for the next individual with
> data, and for the rest of the sample it gave me missing values.
>
> Another "red flag" is that for the first year of data in the sample,
> 1969, it gives values for all individuals for the entire sample size
> (data for each year for each person), even though it provides no
> data for predicted values or residuals for all the individuals
> except for the first two as explained above.
>
> I hope this clarifies it, and thank you again.
Quoting Nick Cox <[email protected]>:
> > To make this more scrutable, so to speak, please
> > spell out "doesn't seem to work well".
> >
> > Nick
> > [email protected]
[email protected]
> > > Hi I am using Stata9's new rolling capability with prais
> > regression
> > > on a panel dataset (unbalanced panal with about 10,000
> > individuals
> > > and roughly 15 years for each).
> > >
> > > Stata-tech support helped me write a little program that
> > collects,
> > > in addition to coefficients of the regression, its predicted
> > values
> > > and residuals. But the program doesn't seem to work well, and I
> > am
> > > not sure where the bug is, I tried recontacting tech support,
> > but
> > > so far no answer. Here is my code, any help would be greately
> > > appreciated:
> > > *************************
> > >
> > > tsset person year
> > >
> > > program myforecast, rclass
> > > syntax [if]
> > > prais r exp `if'
> > > summ year if e(sample)
> > > local min=r(min)
> > > predict pred`min' if e(sample)
> > > predict resid`min' if e(sample), r
> > > return scalar n=r(N)
> > > return scalar rho=e(rho)
> > > end
> > >
> > >
> > > rolling rho=r(rho) n=r(n), window(15) ///
> > > saving(roll, replace): myforecast
> > > save pred, replace
> > > *****************************
> > >
>
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