Thank you very much for your informative comment. I just hope that an
option for Yule-Walker estimation will eventually be added to -corrgram-
and -pac- since sometimes we are likely to compare results from Stata
with those from SAS, Eviews, Minitab, Limdep etc. I was surprised when I
saw that my result was different with that on the textbook and my
teacher's (he used Minitab).
Gewei
----- Original Message ------
At 09:41 AM, 02-16-2005, you wrote:
>
>On Tue, 15 Feb 2005, Gewei Wang wrote:
>
>> Hi, all,
>>
>> I just found the Stata's command -- corrgram -- gives different results
>> of partial autocorrelations from other statistical softwares such as SAS
>> and Eviews. Of course, the -- pac -- creates different plots. In
>> particular, Stata's one period lag partial autocorrelation is different
>> with one period lag autocorrelation. However, other softwares report
>> same values. Who can tell me the reason? Thanks a lot.
>>
>> Gewei
>>
>
>
>Gewei,
>
>There are several different ways that the partial autocorrelation
>funtion can be calculated. Stata's -pac- and -corrgram- commands use
>a linear regression-based technique; see the Methods and Formulas in
>[TS] corrgram for details.
>
>Another way of computing the PAC's is to use the Yule-Walker equations,
>and the other software packages you mentioned may be doing that. The
>Yule-Walker equations are discussed in many time-series books, including
>Box, Jenkins, and Reinsel's "Time Series Analysis: Forecasting and
>Control".
>
>The Yule-Walker method will result in the first PAC being equal to the
>first AC (as is true in the population), but the linear regression method
>Stata uses will not. On the other hand, the Yule-Walker method does not
>work very well when the series is close to being nonstationary.
>
>McCullough (1998, Journal of Economic and Social Measurement) discussed
>several different methods, including least squares methods and a method
>based on the Yule-Walker equations. His results suggest that least
>squares works better than the Yule-Walker-based method.
>
>Hope this helps.
>
> -- Brian Poi
> -- StataCorp LP
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