Hey
First of all, thanks nick for your kind words and i definitely have all
your FAQ section in memory now for future use. I hope we did not get off
to a wrong start on the list as i definitely value comments about my work
from people with experience such as yourself.
Turning to the test, i am just trying to see how many of the bootstraped
samples mean of a certain variable is larger than the mean of another
variable, and therefore i need to know from the tests that i presented
earlier is it larger or smaller since we reject the null hypotheses:
var2-var1=0; Tony, i am assuming they are paired because variable 2
depends on componenets from variable 1
the variables are the log returns of closing prices (var1) and the moving
average rules of this return series (var2), I know there is
autocorrelation in them, but that is why am using just two forms of
processes that could take into account some of this, random walk with a
drift and the AR (1) process........
The point is all this has been done before in an academic paper, i tried
sending to the authors but no reply......i am totally aware of the
problems accompanying this kind of tests but there must be a way around it
somehow.
Thank you for reading
Mo
--
Mahmoud Abd El Aal
MSc. F&I
UOB
*
* For searches and help try:
* http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search
* http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq
* http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/
