st: RE: RE: RE: RE: Foreach Command in Panel Data

[Nick Cox <n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk>]

I see. 

An FAQ very recently referred to 

FAQ     . . . . . . . . . . Making foreach go through all values of a variable
        . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  N. J. Cox
        8/05    Is there a way to tell Stata to try all values of a
                particular variable in a foreach statement without
                specifying them?
                http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/data/foreach.html

gives some guidance. You are going to need to select a panel each time you go through the loop. On the other hand, producing 2000 sets of results does raise the question of how you are going to collate them. 

Nick 
n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk 

Degas Wright

So I am attempting to isolate each stock to determine the impact of
various fundamental variables on excess returns by using the var time
series command.  When I have one stock in the dataset and use the tsset
date command, then use the var command, it works fine.  I am attempting
to write a program that select one ticker at a time to run the time
series from my panel data.  

Your point on isolating a single stock is exactly our objective since
cross sectional approach contains a significant amount of noise in the
forecast.

Nick Cox

Actually, it's interesting that this gets past 

foreach xticker in dcm.dfa1.dat {

but the reason is that you never refer to `xticker' within the loop.
Thus another problem with this loop is that it would never repeat
anything. 

Nick 
n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk 

Nick Cox

If it's panel data, the appropriate -tsset- specifies both identifier
and time variable. Without a panel identifier, the report you get is, if
you think more about it, what you should expect. 

The deeper issue of whether it makes scientific sense to forecast stocks
in isolation is not one I can usefully comment on. 

Degas Wright

I have panel data of 2000 tickers, excess returns (r) and various
fundamental variables such as earnings yield (ep), momentum(mom),
earnings revision (rev), over a 120 month period.  I am trying to use
the var command to develop a time series forecast for each individual
stock's excess return.  I realize that I have to analyze one ticker
(stock) at a time with the time series approach and assumed that using
the foreach command would work.

tsset
       panel variable:  xticker (unbalanced)
        time variable:  date, 2000m2 to 2009m6, but with gaps
                delta:  1 month


foreach xticker in dcm.dfa1.dat{
  2. tsset date
  3. var r ep mom rev
  4. }
repeated time values in sample
r(451);

However, I get the repeated time values in sample r(451).

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