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Re: st: gaps in the Hodrick-Prescott filter
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Elena Quercioli <[email protected]>
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Re: st: gaps in the Hodrick-Prescott filter
Date
Sat, 30 Oct 2010 11:18:58 -0400
I have no gaps, but perhaps my date format is an issue. I use
month-day- year, as in 120479 being December 4th 1979.
On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 10:45 AM, Christopher Baum <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Oct 30, 2010, at 2:33 AM, Elena wrote:
>
>> I am using the Hodrick Prescott filter for a simple time series and I
>> get an error message telling me that Hodrick Prescott does not work
>> with gaps.
>>
>> Can anyone help me understand what that means?
>
> Many time series routines in Stata do not tolerate gaps, that is, periods with missing data between the first and last periods specified. This should only arise if a time period is missing from the sample entirely. For some reason it is being flagged if the variables being filtered are missing within the specified range. In any case, the process cannot be performed on an interrupted time series.
>
> Kit
>
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