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Dear R users, I am using the vars package to calculate the impulse response functions and the forecast error variance decomposition of a VAR model. Unfortunately I do not know whether these functions assume unit or one standard deviation shocks. I tried to look into the code of these functions, but in vain: neither irf, nor vars::irf, nor vars:::irf output the code of the functions. Does someone

Hi, I am brand new to R and not familiar with the language, though I have been reading the manuals and making some slow going progress. I am working with some source code from a Global Vector Auto -Regressive program written by Ranier Puhr from the R-forge group. I need help interpreting the processes of the following code. I am going to post in parts since it's pretty long: GVAR

Hi List l am interested in developing price model. I have found a research paper related to price model of corn in US market where it has taken demand & supply forces into consideration. Following are the equation: Supply equation: St= a0+a1Pt-1+a2Rt-1+a3St-1+a5D1+a6D2+a7D3+U1 -(1) Where D1,D2,D3=Quarterly Dummy Variables(Since quarterly data are considered) Here, Supply

Hello, I'm using VAR models in R in order to obtain impulse responses of stock market shock on US economy. I have series of quarterly changes in real gdp, S&P 500 and quarterly level of unemployment for 1985 - 2012 period. My series are stationary. So I did all the steps below. However I don't understand what do irf function results mean. These are the cumulative orthogonal responses

Hi, I have the following problem. It has two parts. 1. I need to calculate the stationary probabilities of a Markov chain, eg if the transition matrix is P, I need x such that xP = x in other words, the left eigenvectors of P which have an eigenvalue of one. Currently I am using eigen(t(P)) and then pick out the vectors I need. However, this seems to be an overkill (I only need a single

Hi, I would like to use the sem package to perform a path analysis (no latent variables) with a mixture of 2 nominal exogenous, 1 continuous exogenous, and 4 continuous endogenous variables. I seek advice as to how to calculate the appropriate covariance matrix for use with the sem package. I have read through the polycor package, and am confused as to the use of "numeric" for

Dear helpers, I wrote a code which estimates a multi-equation model with generalized least squares (GLS). I can use GLS because I know the covariance matrix of the residuals a priori. However, it is a bit slow and I wonder if anybody would be able to point out a way to make it faster (it is part of a bigger code and needs to run several times). Any suggestion would be greatly appreciated. Carlo

Dear R users, I need perform structural analysis on a no intercept VAR model. Unfortunately the functions irf.VAR and dfev that come with the MSBVAR package only work with objects output by the reduced.form.var function, which seems to only evaluate VAR models with intercept. Is there a way to suppress the estimation of intercept term in reduced.form.var? Do I need to modify the code, and if I

Hi, New to both R and SEM, so this may be a very simple question. I am trying to run a very simple path analysis using the sem package. There are 2 exogenous (FARSCH, LOCUS10) and 2 endogenous (T_ATTENT, RMTEST) observed variables in the model. The idea is that T_ATTENT mediates the effect of FARSCH and LOCUS10 on RMTEST. The RAM specification I used is FARSCH -> T_ATTENT, y1x1, NA

Hi there, I want to estimate simultaneous equation model with panel data. The model looks as follows Y1=a0+a1*X1+a2*X2 Y2=b0+b1*X2+b2*X1 X1=Z1-(Y1/a1) X2=Z2-(Y2/b1) I In this model Y1, Y2, X1 and X2 are endogenous variables; Z1, Z2 are exogenous variables and a0, a1, a2, b0, b1 and b2 are parameters. Could any one please help me how to estimate this model in R. Thanking you in anticipation

Hi there, as a student sociology, I'm starting to learn about SEM. The course I follow is based on LISREL, but I want to use the SEM-package on R parallel to it. Using LISREL, I found it to be very usable to be able to see the total direct and total indirect effects (standardized and unstandardized) in the output. Can I create these effects using R? I know how to calculate them

Hi all, I am trying to set up a simple path analysis in the SEM package, but I am having some trouble. I keep getting the following error message or something similar with my model, and I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong: Error in solve.default(C) : system is computationally singular: reciprocal condition number = 2.2449e-20 In addition: Warning message: In sem.default(ram = ram, S = S,

Dear Spencer and Prof. Fox, Thank you for your replies. I'll very appreciate, if you have any ideas concerning the problem described below. First, I'd like to describe the model in brief. In general I consider a model with three equations. First one is for annual GRP growth - in general it looks like: 1) GRP growth per capita = G(investment, migration, initial GRP per

Good day, I'm using a VAR model to forecast sales with some extra variables (google trends data). I have divided my dataset into a trainingset (weekly sales + vars in 2006 and 2007) and a holdout set (2008). It is unclear to me how I should predict the out-of-sample data, because using the predict() function in the vars package seems to estimate my google trends vars as well. However, I want

After searching multiple combinations of keywords over the past two days and downloading n R graphics tutorials, I have not been able to find anything online or in my R books about how to save multiple plot panes to PNG. Specifically, I am using the irf() function in the vars package to generate plots of Impulse Response Functions: > x.data <-

Hi, my data set is data.frame(id, yr, y, l, e, k). I would like to estimate Lee and Schmidts (1993, OUP) model in R. My colleague wrote SAS code as follows: ** procedures for creating dummy variables are omitted ** ** di# and dt# are dummy variables for industry and time ** data a2; merge a1 a2 a; by id yr; proc sysnlin maxit=100 outest=beta2; endogenous y; exogenous l e k

Hi Frances, I have not touched the system.fit package for quite some time, but to solve your problem the following two pointers might be helpful: 1) Recast your model in the revised form, i.e., include your identity directly into your reaction functions, if possible. 2) For solving your model, you can employ the Gau?-Seidel method (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gauss%E2%80%93Seidel_method).

Frances, I would not advise Gauss-Seidel for non linear models. Can be quite tricky, slow and diverge. You can write your model as a non linear system of equations and use one of the nonlinear solvers. See the section "Root Finding" in the task view NumericalMathematics suggesting three packages (BB, nleqslv and ktsolve). These package are certainly able to handle medium sized models.

Hi there, I am trying to make a VECM model which does a loop to pull of long run impact coefficients. The problem is that to calculate these for a,b,c I use the irf() function and they are stored in irf$a, irf$b, irf$c. What I would really like is to be able to call irf$[variablename(x)] where I can loop through i:n for x and it will pull out the right variable. This is a bit of a waste of time

Dear colleagues/contributors, I'd be pleased if someone could provide insights on how to plot impulse response functions in a format that can easily be copied in a word document just as plotting time-series of variables. I had followed the outline suggested by Benhard Pfaff [see http://127.0.0.1:17693/library/vars/html/irf.html] but I am unable to get the impulse response functions in a