Am 06.10.2017 um 19:50 schrieb Allin Cottrell:
> On Fri, 6 Oct 2017, Sven Schreiber wrote:

>> snapshot. I suspect it has to do with using several Midas terms for 
>> forecasting -- I vaguely seem to remember now that it isn't supported 
>> yet, and sometimes I just get an error message. (Although the message 
>> "missing values encountered" seems misleading.)
> 
> It's supposed to be supported, though it hasn't been tested much and I 
> wouldn't really expect it to work well (excessive collinearity?).

Well the pure UMidas variant works, so I don't see why the problem 
should be so severe as to result in failure with the Almon spec.

Actually here's a reproducible example for the other error I'm getting 
("found missing values"):

<hansl>
open gdp_midas.gdt

list H1 = ld_payems_m?
list H2 = ld_indpro_m?
list L1 = hflags(1, 5, H1)
list L2 = hflags(1, 5, H2)

smpl +0 -3
midasreg ld_qgdp const ld_qgdp(-1) ; \
   mdsl(L1, "nealmon") mdsl(L2, "nealmon")

fcast ($t2+1) ($t2+2) --static
</hansl>

BTW, when I write "fcast ($t2 + 1) ($t2 + 2)" with some blanks instead, 
I get a different (unrelated, I think) error.

thanks,
sven

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