Richard,
I think that you can do that. However, isn�t the default procedure.
When I am working with time series, I seek to know if something
happened that it caused the shift level. Example: I'm from Brazil and
1999 is important because of the depreciation of the exchange tax.
2002 is important too, because the elections for president, etc.
JL
2008/9/14 Richard Harvey <[email protected]>:
> Hi,
>
> Thanks for the link. I am not sure Chow test is the way forward for
> me... primarily because it assumes you know when the break occurs. In
> the example on that page we know exactly at which point one group ends
> and the other starts. What one wants is to identify the breaks
> without assuming that one knows the exact break points. However, could
> one apply the chow test to all the time points between a range and see
> which turns out to be significant?
>
>
>
>
>
> 2008/9/14 Joao Ricardo F. Lima <[email protected]>:
>> Richard,
>>
>> to do the Chow test, I always see this FAQ:
>>
>> http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/stat/chow.html
>>
>> HTH,
>>
>> Joao Lima
>>
>> 2008/9/14 Richard Harvey <[email protected]>:
>>> Thanks robert, maarten and joao,
>>>
>>> I am not entirely sure I understand how prof. yafee could identify the
>>> two breaks he pointed out. I couldnt understand what the statement "If
>>> we use a 3.5 sd measure of a critical value for a standard of a level
>>> shift" ..
>>>
>>> Thanks for the clemao2 suggestion, I will try it out.
>>>
>>> But i have an issue with the chow test. As I under stand it uses OLS
>>> regression using points before and after the break point. The
>>> relaibaility of this test would be highly dependent on when the break
>>> happens, is it not? there must be enough number of time series points
>>> to run the regressions reliably.
>>>
>>> There is an ado which does the chow test in stata, I was looking at it
>>> when I got your mail. But the ado by Sean Becketti - STB: sts7
>>> (STB-17) has errors. When I run it, I get the following
>>>
>>> program error: code follows on the same line as open brace
>>> r(198);
>>>
>>> I tried to fix the ado, but now it dosent give me any results,
>>> nothing. Set trace on reveals nothing.
>>>
>>> thanks
>>> rich
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 9/14/08, Joao Ricardo F. Lima <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> Dear Richard,
>>>>
>>>> if you are looking for structural breaks in the data, why don�t you
>>>> use Chow Test?
>>>>
>>>> As I understand, Zandrews is a unit root test allowing for structural
>>>> change. According to Professor Robert, there are two significant level
>>>> shifts in the series. Zandrews test is for only one break. With 2
>>>> breaks you can use clemao2 or clemio2 -findit clemao_io-.
>>>>
>>>> See Kit�s paper "Stata: the languague of choice for time series
>>>> analysis?" to understand these unit root tests. You can download it
>>>> free:
>>>>
>>>> http://www.stata-journal.com/article.html?article=st0080
>>>>
>>>> Hope this helps,
>>>>
>>>> Joao Lima
>>>>
>>>> 2008/9/13 Richard Harvey <[email protected]>:
>>>>> hello statalisters,
>>>>>
>>>>> I have the following time series data
>>>>>
>>>>> Months MNval
>>>>> -36 -246404.3
>>>>> -35 -271136.9
>>>>> -34 15321.21
>>>>> -33 -266850.2
>>>>> -32 -208945.8
>>>>> -31 -223758.4
>>>>> -30 -152778.7
>>>>> -29 -65240.22
>>>>> -28 -481321.3
>>>>> -27 -190169.6
>>>>> -26 -112362.4
>>>>> -25 -467139.1
>>>>> -24 -194511.7
>>>>> -23 -444933.2
>>>>> -22 -142801.8
>>>>> -21 -108734.8
>>>>> -20 -217134.7
>>>>> -19 -285050.4
>>>>> -18 -59074.71
>>>>> -17 -22606.87
>>>>> -16 -124248.8
>>>>> -15 -190182.6
>>>>> -14 -142432.7
>>>>> -13 -137051
>>>>> -12 55313.91
>>>>> -11 -33965.3
>>>>> -10 -274899.1
>>>>> -9 25388.8
>>>>> -8 -57483.93
>>>>> -7 -39486.45
>>>>> -6 -54602.45
>>>>> -5 -239732.4
>>>>> -4 -294504.7
>>>>> -3 -334388.7
>>>>> -2 -287347.5
>>>>> -1 -87598.81
>>>>> 0 -580743.6
>>>>> 1 -160395.5
>>>>> 2 -575569.9
>>>>> 3 -255174.5
>>>>> 4 -126203.1
>>>>> 5 -375763.7
>>>>> 6 -32561.49
>>>>> 7 -87045.1
>>>>> 8 -91822.47
>>>>> 9 -31134.7
>>>>> 10 -102519
>>>>> 11 -84379.84
>>>>> 12 -266297.5
>>>>> 13 -80520.79
>>>>> 14 -48140.91
>>>>> 15 27969.55
>>>>> 16 -38107.77
>>>>> 17 -127254
>>>>> 18 -171679.9
>>>>> 19 -25015.38
>>>>> 20 -92405.42
>>>>> 21 75767.31
>>>>> 22 -45497.32
>>>>> 23 -188625.2
>>>>> 24 30972.86
>>>>> 25 -4018.882
>>>>> 26 -32145.2
>>>>> 27 -80913.73
>>>>> 28 -24621.37
>>>>> 29 -61688.87
>>>>> 30 -123890.4
>>>>> 31 -45585.37
>>>>> 32 -132729.1
>>>>> 33 -106762.2
>>>>> 34 -143616.2
>>>>> 35 -215439.4
>>>>> 36 -133058.6
>>>>>
>>>>> I would like to see if and when there are any structural breaks in the
>>>>> data.
>>>>>
>>>>> I came across Kit's zandrews prog. -ssc d zandrews- is this the
>>>>> command to use? the graph option on this looks very useful.
>>>>> But how does one interpret the break point t-stats? When i use the
>>>>> command with the above data. I do not find any point above the
>>>>> (critical 5%: -4.42).
>>>>> so does this mean that the series does not have any significant
>>>>> breakpoints ?
>>>>>
>>>>> thanks very much for you time
>>>>> rich
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>>>>> * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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>>
>>
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>
>
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> rich
>
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