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Re: RE: st: A cry for help on ARMA with weak autocorrelation


From   Robert A Yaffee <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: RE: st: A cry for help on ARMA with weak autocorrelation
Date   Thu, 06 May 2010 12:30:37 -0400

Dmytro,
   The arch variance model is not robust to misspecification of the 
mean model.  That must be properly specified, as must the arma
components if significant.
   -  Cheers,
          Robert

Robert A. Yaffee, Ph.D.
Research Professor
Silver School of Social Work
New York University

Biosketch: http://homepages.nyu.edu/~ray1/Biosketch2009.pdf

CV:  http://homepages.nyu.edu/~ray1/vita.pdf

----- Original Message -----
From: Dmytro Andriychenko <[email protected]>
Date: Thursday, May 6, 2010 10:35 am
Subject: RE: st: A cry for help on ARMA with weak autocorrelation
To: [email protected]


> Thank you ever so much for the reply. I understand about the ARCH 
> model, but why did you try to fit a linear regression model(I mean reg 
> dmytro)? What does it do?
> 
> Another thing: what is it that is sympthomatic of ARCH: is it the weak 
> autocorrelation or just the pattern of actual values?
> 
> May I also ask if it is appropriate to do ARCH on the actual values as 
> they stand (say as opposed to residuals from another model)?
> 
> Thanks again,
> 
> Kindest regards,
> 
> Dmytro
> 
>  
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] 
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tirthankar 
> Chakravarty
> Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2010 1:35 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: st: A cry for help on ARMA with weak autocorrelation
> 
> This is symptomatic of GARCH effects:
> ****************************************
> clear*
> input dmytro
> .0070224
> -.0397735
> .0190506
> .029408
> -.0102329
> end
> g id = _n
> tsset id
> tsline dmytro
> reg dmytro
> estat archlm, lags(1(1)10)
> arch dmytro, arch(1) garch(1)
> ****************************************
> 
> T
> 
> 2010/5/6 Robert A Yaffee <[email protected]>:
> > Dmytro,
> >   It sounds as if you have more noise than signal.  If you cannot
> > decompose that into any signal, you may merely have white noise.
> >   - Robert
> >
> >
> > Robert A. Yaffee, Ph.D.
> > Research Professor
> > Silver School of Social Work
> > New York University
> >
> > Biosketch: http://homepages.nyu.edu/~ray1/Biosketch2009.pdf
> >
> > CV:  http://homepages.nyu.edu/~ray1/vita.pdf
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Dmytro Andriychenko <[email protected]>
> > Date: Wednesday, May 5, 2010 2:50 pm
> > Subject: st: A cry for help on ARMA with weak autocorrelation
> > To: [email protected]
> >
> >
> >> Dear Statalist,
> >>
> >> I have been recently asked to fit a univariate model for a particular
> >> stationary time series. I thought ARMA will be the obvious choice, 
> but
> >> when
> >> I looked at the autocorrelation within the series, I found that the 
> first
> >> two lags are not significant and the few significant ones are only
> >> marginally so (see corrgram output below).
> >>
> >> I guess I can still do the estimates, but I am very much wondering 
> if
> >> ARMA
> >> is appropriate modeling technique here. Is it even valid? Portmanteau
> >> statistics is not rejecting hypothesis of no autocorrelation and Q 
> stats
> >> suggest marginal significance at lag 3,5 and 7 in the first series.
> >>
> >> The question is:  is it even appropriate to be building ARMA in the
> >> light of
> >> such weak autocorrelation, especially that the first two lags are not
> >> significant? If ARMA is not appropriate, then what can it be?
> >>
> >> If anyone can help me with that, or better still point me towards a
> >> reference that would explain that, I would very much extremely appreciate
> >> that. I have been reading books on econometrics for over a week, 
> but still
> >> cannot conclusively answer the question.
> >>
> >> Thank you,
> >>
> >> Dmytro
> >>
> >>                                           -1       0       1 -1
> >> 0
> >> 1
> >>  LAG       AC       PAC      Q     Prob>Q  [Autocorrelation]  [Partial
> >> Autocor]
> >> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >> ---
> >> 1       -0.0516  -0.0516   1.3555  0.2443          |
> >> |
> >>
> >> 2        0.0574   0.0551   3.0348  0.2193          |
> >> |
> >>
> >> 3       -0.1253  -0.1209   11.062  0.0114         -|
> >> |
> >>
> >> 4       -0.0248  -0.0401   11.377  0.0226          |
> >> |
> >>
> >> 5        0.0887   0.1020   15.417  0.0087          |
> >> |
> >>
> >> 6        0.0809   0.0808   18.785  0.0045          |
> >> |
> >>
> >> 7       -0.1274  -0.1468   27.146  0.0003         -|                
>  -|
> >>
> >> 8        0.0455   0.0491   28.214  0.0004          |
> >> |
> >>
> >> 9       -0.0718  -0.0235   30.882  0.0003          |
> >> |
> >>
> >> 10      -0.0196  -0.0722   31.081  0.0006          |
> >> |
> >>
> >> 11       0.0029  -0.0091   31.085  0.0011          |
> >> |
> >>
> >> 12      -0.0930  -0.0818   35.588  0.0004          |
> >> |
> >>
> >> 13       0.1613   0.1684   49.154  0.0000          |-
> >> |-
> >>
> >> 14      -0.0064  -0.0050   49.176  0.0000          |
> >> |
> >>
> >> 15       0.0465   0.0277   50.305  0.0000          |
> >> |
> >>
> >> 16       0.0520   0.0951   51.726  0.0000          |
> >> |
> >>
> >> 17      -0.0261  -0.0090   52.084  0.0000          |
> >> |
> >>
> >> 18       0.0407   0.0249   52.955  0.0000          |
> >> |
> >>
> >> 19       0.0720   0.0485   55.692  0.0000          |
> >> |
> >>
> >> 20      -0.0093   0.0368   55.738  0.0000          |
> >> |
> >>
> >> 21       0.0882   0.0593   59.865  0.0000          |
> >> |
> >>
> >> 22       0.0209   0.0623   60.098  0.0000          |
> >> |
> >>
> >> 23      -0.0231  -0.0031   60.381  0.0000          |
> >> |
> >>
> >> 24      -0.0112  -0.0256   60.448  0.0001          |
> >> |
> >>
> >> 25      -0.0611  -0.0094   62.445  0.0000          |
> >> |
> >>
> >> 26       0.0820   0.0641   66.046  0.0000          |
> >> |
> >>
> >> 27      -0.0818  -0.1022    69.64  0.0000          |
> >> |
> >>
> >> 28      -0.0372  -0.0531   70.384  0.0000          |
> >> |
> >>
> >> 29      -0.0148   0.0117   70.503  0.0000          |
> >> |
> >>
> >> 30      -0.0195  -0.0182   70.708  0.0000          |
> >> |
> >>
> >> 31       0.0606   0.0384   72.693  0.0000          |
> >> |
> >>
> >> 32       0.0101  -0.0140   72.748  0.0001          |
> >> |
> >>
> >> 33       0.0248   0.0807   73.083  0.0001          |
> >> |
> >>
> >> 34       0.0049  -0.0336   73.096  0.0001          |
> >> |
> >>
> >> 35      -0.0110  -0.0529   73.162  0.0002          |
> >> |
> >>
> >> 36      -0.0420  -0.0467   74.129  0.0002          |
> >> |
> >>
> >> 37       0.0684   0.0485   76.693  0.0001          |
> >> |
> >>
> >> 38       0.0291   0.0632   77.159  0.0002          |
> >> |
> >>
> >> 39       0.0517  -0.0230   78.631  0.0002          |
> >> |
> >>
> >> 40      -0.0336   0.0225   79.255  0.0002          |
> >> |
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> The values are:
> >>
> >> -.0090714
> >> .0218658
> >> -.0268755
> >> .0024567
> >> -.056356
> >> .0046611
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> >> -.0091224
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> >> .0597358
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> >> -.01581
> >> -.0096569
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> >> -.0002346
> >> -.0107546
> >> -.0070105
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> >> .0054045
> >> .0222607
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> >> -.0261011
> >> -.0244341
> >> -.0354443
> >> .0121222
> >> .0120258
> >> -.0312228
> >> .0112433
> >> .0132771
> >> .0068617
> >> .0016813
> >> .0044956
> >> -.0182991
> >> -.0232587
> >> .0172067
> >> -.0174499
> >> -.0107841
> >> .019073
> >> -.0025773
> >> -.0036931
> >> .0090313
> >> .0116596
> >> -.0042143
> >> -.01231
> >> -.0116882
> >> -.0226994
> >> -.0131874
> >> .007977
> >> -.05966
> >> -.0327191
> >> .0383449
> >> -.0062823
> >> .0268879
> >> .0207028
> >> .0112748
> >> -.0086665
> >> .0050945
> >> .0044184
> >> -.0026326
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> >> .0221472
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> >> -.0052757
> >> -.0292039
> >> .0091033
> >> -.0250168
> >> -.0004563
> >> .027513
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> >> -.0123415
> >> .0211291
> >> -.0212989
> >> -.0510502
> >> -.0655146
> >> -.079906
> >> .0951033
> >> .0257664
> >> .0244412
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> >> -.016212
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> >> .0161915
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> >> -.0145679
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> >> -.009253
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> >> -.0084252
> >> .0072241
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> >> -.0837865
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> >> -.0340881
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> >> .0413365
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> >> -.0354757
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> >> .0661936
> >> -.0374131
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> >> .0220518
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> >> .018806
> >> .0283427
> >> -.0035315
> >> .0055637
> >> -.0215859
> >> -.0089717
> >> .0117569
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> >> -.0127578
> >> .0227208
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> >> .006104
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> >> .0116844
> >> .0090237
> >> -.0258517
> >> .0119371
> >> .0197902
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> >> -.0176673
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> >> -.0123987
> >> .0232635
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> >> -.0185409
> >> -.0008988
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> >> -.002049
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> >> .0170636
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> >> -.0078974
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> >> .0259404
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> >> -.0008807
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> >> .0044689
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> >> -.0037117
> >> -.0016336
> >> .0056829
> >> .022727
> >> .0188918
> >> .0005565
> >> -.0095177
> >> .0065622
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> >> -.0106926
> >> -.0022764
> >> -.0008583
> >> .0134516
> >> -.0193677
> >> -.008615
> >> -.0148244
> >> .0210567
> >> -.0056529
> >> .0173368
> >> .0061102
> >> .00454
> >> .0065217
> >> .0098181
> >> -.0000982
> >> .0154285
> >> .0129695
> >> -.00073
> >> .0021348
> >> .0089025
> >> .0067787
> >> .0054498
> >> -.0059829
> >> -.0127592
> >> .0177407
> >> .0060458
> >> .0085001
> >> .0001955
> >> .0115237
> >> -.021904
> >> -.0161366
> >> -.0252199
> >> .0126491
> >> .0416818
> >> .0083432
> >> .0076814
> >> .006319
> >> .0036798
> >> -.0017376
> >> .0038514
> >> .0128078
> >> .0041885
> >> .0190792
> >> -.0025673
> >> -.0047374
> >> .0207295
> >> -.0031738
> >> .0021157
> >> .0141172
> >> .0022464
> >> -.0001411
> >> .0059633
> >> .0192223
> >> .0063477
> >> -.0110016
> >> .0098848
> >> -.0019283
> >> .0168991
> >> -.016264
> >> .0130329
> >> -.0294342
> >> -.0474505
> >> .0242586
> >> -.004715
> >> -.0229926
> >> -.0079083
> >> .0155926
> >> .0242987
> >> .0081582
> >> -.0317149
> >> .0022745
> >> .0402284
> >> -.0121889
> >> -.0115776
> >> .0160389
> >> -.0036221
> >> .013381
> >> -.0112391
> >> .0025024
> >> -.0076647
> >> .0229626
> >> .0084715
> >> .0246611
> >> -.000844
> >> .0007362
> >> -.0011082
> >> .0119686
> >> -.0007591
> >> -.0114279
> >> -.0122776
> >> .0217314
> >> .016614
> >> -.0089483
> >> .0057192
> >> .000289
> >> .0015287
> >> .0005388
> >> -.0017853
> >> .0141611
> >> .0119972
> >> .0053654
> >> -.0015335
> >> -.0459242
> >> .0222826
> >> -.0173922
> >> .0336294
> >> -.004158
> >> .0146761
> >> .0085745
> >> .0027933
> >> -.0084667
> >> .0272865
> >> -.0069933
> >> .0115929
> >> -.0105085
> >> .0153751
> >> -.0298243
> >> .0334148
> >> -.025835
> >> .0040855
> >> .0145779
> >> .0039845
> >> -.0174904
> >> -.0595789
> >> .0040874
> >> -.0296612
> >> -.0002079
> >> .0253992
> >> .0157719
> >> -.0175371
> >> .0108528
> >> .0232458
> >> .0005913
> >> .0209351
> >> .0197239
> >> -.0291605
> >> .0194979
> >> -.0176277
> >> -.0376501
> >> -.0035934
> >> -.0084867
> >> .0254431
> >> .0140886
> >> -.0237761
> >> .0064907
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> >> -.0263119
> >> -.0443525
> >> -.0044308
> >> .0287313
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> >> -.0253201
> >> .037117
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> >> -.0480194
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> >> -.2254887
> >> .0186381
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> >> .1211257
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> >> .0747881
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> >> -.0686975
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> >> -.0756612
> >> .0597296
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> >> .0219765
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> >> .0047235
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> >> 9.06e-06
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> >> -.0203786
> >> -.0011497
> >> -.0259624
> >> .059896
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> >> .0299325
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> >> .0070224
> >> -.0397735
> >> .0190506
> >> .029408
> >> -.0102329
> >>
> >>
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