Olga,
Let me be clear about my first reply,
sigma is the residual standard error. To obtain
sigma squared, you need to square that.
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Bob Yaffee
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----- Original Message -----
From: Olga Gorbachev Melloni <[email protected]>
Date: Thursday, August 24, 2006 1:31 pm
Subject: st: what is SIGMA2 _const in arima
> Hi,
> I am trying to estimate a model, in which errors follow an MA(1). I
> have
> panel data, and I assume that for each cohort, coefficients are the
> same. I
> ran:
>
> arima y x if cohort==1935, ma(1) condition
>
> I have two questions:
>
> 1. when the estimation finished its run, it used BFGS and for the
> estimate
> of the white-noise disturbance epsilon it showed instead of the
> usual
> '/sigma', I got SIGMA2 _const =0.10...
>
> what does this mean? I looked in the manual, but there is no
> mention of
> this.
>
> 2. When trying to predict the errors or the predicted values, I got
> an error
> message saying that the sample cannot include panels.
>
> Is there a way to get the predicted values and/or white-noise errors?
>
> thank you,
> olga
>
>
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