Re: st: Nonlinear least squares restrictions

["G. Anderson" <ga274@cam.ac.uk>]

Hi Maarten,

Thanks a lot for this- it does sound like this could do the trick (the 
example about the contributions of father's and mother's education seems 
along the lines I am looking for).

Specifically I am looking at how yields changes in response macro data- and 
I want the relative contributions of different data releases to be constant 
over time, but allow the overall magnitude to vary annually.

So for example if we consider gdp, unemployment and inflation as our macro 
data releases- I want their relative contributions to yield changes to be 
fixed over time. But the overall magnitude of how they affect yields can 
vary annually.

Is the right setup using  propcnsreg:

yield dum00 dum01 dum02 dum03 dum04 dum05 ,constrained(gdp unemployment 
inflation) lambda(dum00 dum01 dum02 dum03 dum04 dum05)

Where dum are annual dummies. 

In particular- do I include the annual dummies as both independent 
variables and variables in lambda? Is it also possible to impose a 
normalization so that on average the coefficients on the dummies is equal 
to 1?


Many thanks for your help with this,

Gareth 

On Jun 5 2013, Maarten Buis wrote:

> Sounds to me like a proportionality constraint. I have implemented
> that in -propcnsreg-, which you can download by typing in Stata -ssc
> install propcnsreg-. There is a description of that type of models
> here: <http://www.maartenbuis.nl/wp/prop.html>
>
> -- Maarten
>
> On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 1:23 PM, G. Anderson <ga274@cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Using daily data, I am trying to estimate a relationship of the form y=a
> > +bBX +u
> >
> > Where a is a scalar which can vary across years, b is a scalar which can
> > vary across years, X is a vector of data and B is a vector of parameters
> > which is fixed across years.
> >
> > Therefore I am trying to estimate a, b and B. I want to normalise b so 
> > that on average it is equal to 1 across years.
> >
> > I have tried experimenting using the nonlinear regression function but so
> > far to no avail- is this type of restriction possible in Stata?
> >
> > Many Thanks,
> > Gareth
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