Thank you. The issue is resolved by scaling the data in millions.
Saba
On Saturday, 19 December 2015, 15:06, Achim Zeileis <Achim.Zeileis at
uibk.ac.at> wrote:
On Sat, 19 Dec 2015, Saba Sehrish via R-help wrote:
> Hi?I am using NeweyWest standard errors to correct lm( ) output. For
example:
> lm(A~A1+A2+A3+A4+A5+B1+B2+B3+B4+B5)
> vcovNW<-NeweyWest(lm(A~A1+A2+A3+A4+A5+B1+B2+B3+B4+B5))
>
> I am using package(sandwich) for NeweyWest. Now when I run this command, it
gives following error:
> Error in solve.default(diag(ncol(umat)) - apply(var.fit$ar, 2:3, sum))
:system is computationally singular: reciprocal condition number = 7.49468e-18
>
> Attached herewith is data for A&B, A1,A2,A3,A4,A5,B1,B2,B3,B4,B5 are
> simply lag variables. Can you help me removing this error please?
Without trying to replicate the error, there are at least two issues:
(1) You should scale your data to use more reasonable orders of magnitude,
e.g., in millions. This will help avoiding numerical problems.
(2) More importantly, you should not employ HAC/Newey-West standard errors
in autoregressive models. If you use an autoregressive specification, you
should capture all relevant autocorrelations - and then no HAC estimator
is necessary. Alternatively, one may treat autocorrelation as a nuisance
parameter and not model it - but instead capture it in HAC standard
errors. Naturally, the former strategy will typically perform better if
the autocorrelations are more substantial.
> Saba
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On Sat, 19 Dec 2015, Saba Sehrish wrote:> Thank you. The issue is resolved by scaling the data in millions.That solves the numerical problem but the second issue (inappropriateness of the Newey-West estimator for an autoregressive model) persists.> Saba > > > On Saturday, 19 December 2015, 15:06, Achim Zeileis > <Achim.Zeileis at uibk.ac.at> wrote: > > > On Sat, 19 Dec 2015, Saba Sehrish via R-help wrote: > > > Hi?I am using NeweyWest standard errors to correct lm( ) output. For > example: > > lm(A~A1+A2+A3+A4+A5+B1+B2+B3+B4+B5) > > vcovNW<-NeweyWest(lm(A~A1+A2+A3+A4+A5+B1+B2+B3+B4+B5)) > > > > I am using package(sandwich) for NeweyWest. Now when I run this command, > it gives following error: > > Error in solve.default(diag(ncol(umat)) - apply(var.fit$ar, 2:3, sum)) > :system is computationally singular: reciprocal condition number > 7.49468e-18 > > > > Attached herewith is data for A&B, A1,A2,A3,A4,A5,B1,B2,B3,B4,B5 are > > simply lag variables. Can you help me removing this error please? > > Without trying to replicate the error, there are at least two issues: > > (1) You should scale your data to use more reasonable orders of magnitude, > e.g., in millions. This will help avoiding numerical problems. > > (2) More importantly, you should not employ HAC/Newey-West standard errors > in autoregressive models. If you use an autoregressive specification, you > should capture all relevant autocorrelations - and then no HAC estimator > is necessary. Alternatively, one may treat autocorrelation as a nuisance > parameter and not model it - but instead capture it in HAC standard > errors. Naturally, the former strategy will typically perform better if > the autocorrelations are more substantial. > > > Saba > > > >
Hi
Thanks for the reminder.
Actually I want to analyse whether present value of variable A is Granger caused
by lag values of B and test linear hypothesis "B1,B2,B3,B4,B5=0".
Therefore, to get robust standard error NeweyWest estimates are applied.
Saba
On Saturday, 19 December 2015, 23:26, Achim Zeileis <Achim.Zeileis at
uibk.ac.at> wrote:
On Sat, 19 Dec 2015, Saba Sehrish wrote:
> Thank you. The issue is resolved by scaling the data in millions.
That solves the numerical problem but the second issue (inappropriateness
of the Newey-West estimator for an autoregressive model) persists.
> Saba
>
>
> On Saturday, 19 December 2015, 15:06, Achim Zeileis
> <Achim.Zeileis at uibk.ac.at> wrote:
>
>
> On Sat, 19 Dec 2015, Saba Sehrish via R-help wrote:
>
> > Hi?I am using NeweyWest standard errors to correct lm( ) output. For
> example:
> > lm(A~A1+A2+A3+A4+A5+B1+B2+B3+B4+B5)
> > vcovNW<-NeweyWest(lm(A~A1+A2+A3+A4+A5+B1+B2+B3+B4+B5))
> >
> > I am using package(sandwich) for NeweyWest. Now when I run this
command,
> it gives following error:
> > Error in solve.default(diag(ncol(umat)) - apply(var.fit$ar, 2:3, sum))
> :system is computationally singular: reciprocal condition number >
7.49468e-18
> >
> > Attached herewith is data for A&B, A1,A2,A3,A4,A5,B1,B2,B3,B4,B5
are
> > simply lag variables. Can you help me removing this error please?
>
> Without trying to replicate the error, there are at least two issues:
>
> (1) You should scale your data to use more reasonable orders of magnitude,
> e.g., in millions. This will help avoiding numerical problems.
>
> (2) More importantly, you should not employ HAC/Newey-West standard errors
> in autoregressive models. If you use an autoregressive specification, you
> should capture all relevant autocorrelations - and then no HAC estimator
> is necessary. Alternatively, one may treat autocorrelation as a nuisance
> parameter and not model it - but instead capture it in HAC standard
> errors. Naturally, the former strategy will typically perform better if
> the autocorrelations are more substantial.
>
> > Saba
>
>
>
>
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