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st: re: tsset with non-integers
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Frank said
Thank you for your responses. My goal is only to check the
independence of residual terms following a regression run. My reading
of the durbinh command lead me to believe that it would help me
achieve my goal. Can you suggest an alternative option to check the
independence of residual terms that are non-integers? Thank you.
Residuals are never integers (except by chance). To analyze serial
correlation, the data must be on a time-series calendar with even
increments of time between observations. Those dates are integers.
As I said previously, durbinh considers the null that there is no
serial correlation against the alternative that there is AR(1). You
can fail to reject in a situation where the errors are most decidedly
not i.i.d. but rather AR(p), p > 1. That is quite common in real data.
A test such as Breusch-Godfrey (of which Durbin's h is just a special
case) allows for p > 1, as does the 'Q' test applied to residuals.
Kit Baum | Boston College Economics & DIW Berlin | http://ideas.repec.org/e/pba1.html
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