Re: st: out-of-sample prediction does not work after -regress- with lags

[Mirko <mirko.moro@gmail.com>]

Thank you Maarten for your reply.

I am not interested in the missing values at the beginng of the
sample, clearly they are missing because there is not enough
information. Instead, I would like to undestand why -predict- perfoms
the out-of-sample forecast for one data point at the end of the series
(the observations created with -tsappend-) only and not for the whole
sample when lags are presents. The problem does not occure, for
instance, when the regressor is a time trend. What am I missing here?
Thanks

Mirko

On 4 May 2011 12:41, maarten buis <maartenlbuis@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 1:24 PM, Mirko wrote:
>> I cannot get out-of-sample forecasting after a regression with lags:
>>
>> According to the manual, "-predict- can be used to make in-sample or
>> out-of-sample predictions:
>> 6. predict calculates the requested statistic for all possible
>> observations, whether they were used in fitting the model or not."
>>
>> However from the example above only one out of sample data is predicted.
>
> To do out of sample predictions Stata must know the values of all
> explanatory variables. So, in order to predict the outcome Stata needs
> to know all the lagged values. If these are missing than what should it
> predict? Prediction is just filling in an equation, if one of the elements
> is missing than the result will be missing.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Maarten
>
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