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Re: st: SROOT program - test seasonal unit root
From
Nick Cox <[email protected]>
To
"[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject
Re: st: SROOT program - test seasonal unit root
Date
Wed, 30 Oct 2013 01:29:29 +0000
That
su group, meanonly
should be
su id, meanonly
Nick
[email protected]
On 30 October 2013 01:27, Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
> The problem lies in your -foreach- loop which executes -sroot- just
> once, as you do not specify otherwise.
>
> You should try something like
>
> egen id = group(gvkey1)
> su group, meanonly
>
> forval i = 1/`r(max)' {
> sroot fcf if id == `i'
> }
>
> See also
>
> http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/data-management/try-all-values-with-foreach/
>
> (Spelling is Stata!)
>
> Nick
> [email protected]
>
>
> On 30 October 2013 01:07, Francis, Richard N <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Through the generosity of The STATA Journal, I was able to acquire a program which performs a test of seasonal unit roots (program name is sroot, v9 of The Stata Journal).
>>
>> For a sample with one subject and say 60 obs, the program works like a dream!
>>
>> However, my sample contains multiple subjects, so instead of executing the program separately for each subject, I attempted to use the "foreach" command/routine, and received the following:
>>
>> foreach v in gvkey1 {
>> 2. sroot fcf
>> 3. }
>> sample may not include multiple panels
>>
>> Obviously, the program was designed for the single subject in mind (and don't get me wrong, I am most grateful for the availability of the single subject program!).
>>
>> My question is whether anyone may have a suggestion for working around the multiple panel problem.
>>
>> I am a SAS user, who finds plenty of shortcomings with SAS, and finds many features of STATA to be pretty cool.
>>
>> Thank you for any ideas you may have!!
>>
>> Rick Francis
>>
>>
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