st: RE: problems with conducting OLS-PCSE analysis

[Gordon Hughes <G.A.Hughes@ed.ac.uk>]

There are two separate problems with what you are trying to do:

A.  There are no time periods (years) for which data is available for 
all countries.  Hence, using casewise inclusion/deletion means that 
you cannot construct the cross-country error covariance 
matrix.  Specify the options "pairwise"  or "hetonly" to address this 
- see the manual for information on the different options.

B.  As David Jacobs points out, autocorrelation routines don't like 
gaps in data.  His suggestion of imputing or interpolating missing 
years will work if there are only a few gaps, especially if there are 
strong time trends in the country time series.  Alternatively, 
suppress the calculation of the autocorrelation coefficient by 
specifying the option "corr(independent)".

However, as always you should think carefully about the specification 
of your model.  It seems possible that you are trying to estimate a 
model that is too complex given the nature of your data.

Gordon Hughes
g.a.hughes@ed.ac.uk

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Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2012 20:54:01 +0000
From: "Jacobs, David" <jacobs.184@sociology.osu.edu>
Subject: st: RE: problems with conducting OLS-PCSE analysis

As you probably already know, you have missing values or gaps within 
various series included in your models.

Some obvious tricks to determine where these missing values are 
located include running the command -xtdescribe if e(sample)- 
immediately after an -xtpcse- run. That will show you what the exact 
pattern of gaps is. Another possibility that will provide more detail 
is to type ".browse if e(sample)" again immediately after a run. The 
last command works best if you have only a few explanatory variables 
in your model as it will show the entire data set the xtpcse routine 
could access.

In general and as you probably already know AR(1) routines don't like 
gaps within a series and you seem to have that problem. One 
possibility is to employ Stata's commands that impute missing data to 
overcome these difficulties.

D. Jacobs

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Subject: st: problems with conducting OLS-PCSE analysis

Dear Statalist.

I am currently conducting ols-pcse(pannel corrected standard error) with stata.

Although the number of groups(countries) are 19, the result shows only
16 groups.

In addition, when I conduct different model, following error message comes up:

"Number of gaps in sample: 40
(note: computations for rho restarted at each gap)
(note: estimates of rho outside [-1,1] bounded to be in the range [-1,1])
no time periods are common to all panels, cannot estimate disturbance
covariance matrix using casewise inclusion"

Do you have any idea for including all countries?

Thanks.
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