Re: st: RE: Nonlinear least squares restrictions

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

Hi Tim, 

Thanks a lot for getting back to me. Unfortunately I'm not sure standard 
OLS will work here- I want to constrain the relative responses in the 
vector B to be constant over time- and the estimate both the dummy scalar b 
(for each year) and the vector B.

Will give the stuff on dummy variables a read - looks like it could prove 
useful.

Many thanks,

Gareth


On Jun 6 2013, tshmak wrote:

> Hi Gareth, 
>
> I think this is a linear regression rather than a nonlinear regression 
> problem.
>
> Naively, we can just create a variable called year, run: 
>
> reg y i.year##X, nocons
>
> This would result in a different intercept and slope for each year. 
>
> To make the average of b = 1, simply divide the year-specific slopes by 
> the average of the slopes, the average being your estimate of B.
>
> The only problem of this approach is that your slopes across years would 
> not meet at the boundary. To constraint the slopes to meet, you need to 
> use splines. The best place to start is probably Roger Newson's -bspline- 
> package. Dr. Newson has also written a few informative articles 
> explaining their use in Stata Journal.
>
> HTH, 
> Tim
>
> ps. I think the reason -nl- fails on this problem is that the problem is 
> not identified unless you can somehow constraint the b to average 1, and 
> I'm not sure you can do that in -nl-.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message----- From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu 
> [mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of G. Anderson 
> Sent: 05 June 2013 19:24 To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu Subject: st: 
> Nonlinear least squares restrictions
>
> 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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