RE: st: SROOT program - test seasonal unit root

["Francis, Richard N" <rnfrancis@utep.edu>]

Nick,

I am most grateful for your insight.

Apologize for the misspelling, and for the hassle.

Thank you again!!

Rick Francis


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From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu [mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of Nick Cox
Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2013 7:29 PM
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Subject: Re: st: SROOT program - test seasonal unit root

That

su group, meanonly

should be

su id, meanonly

Nick
njcoxstata@gmail.com


On 30 October 2013 01:27, Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com> 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
> njcoxstata@gmail.com
>
>
> On 30 October 2013 01:07, Francis, Richard N <rnfrancis@utep.edu> 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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