On Mon, 9 Oct 2017, Sven Schreiber wrote:

> Am 09.10.2017 um 12:07 schrieb Sven Schreiber:
>> Am 07.10.2017 um 17:17 schrieb Allin Cottrell:
>
>>> Thanks for the offer, but this is now fixed in git and snapshots. The 
>>> thing is that for forecasting we need the "gross" MIDAS coefficients 
>>> (hfslope, if any, times the weights implied by the hyperparams, for 
>>> each midas term). 
>> 
>> I'm not sure if this is now correct, I seem to be getting some strange 
>> results for the Umidas case, where I _believe_ they were different (more 
>> plausible) before. I'll have to check, and will report back.
>
> Well, for example I am getting this bogus type of estimation output with 
> yesterday's snapshot:
>
> <output>
> === normalized exponential Almon ===
> Konvergenz erreicht nach 67 Iterationen
>
> Modell 4: MIDAS (NKQ), benutze die Beobachtungen 1991:4-2009:4 (T = 73)
> L-BFGS-B mit bedingten KQ benutzt
> Abhängige Variable: dep
>
>                Schätzung     Std.-fehler   t-Quotient    p-Wert
>   -------------------------------------------------------------
>   const        0.00310599    0.000813343    3.819        0.0003 ***
>   dep_1       −0.164985      0.118316      −1.394        0.1682
>   const        0.277335      0.0991822      2.796        0.0069 ***
> ...
> </output>

Can you tell me what the midasreg specification looks like? I'm not 
seeing anything like that in the examples I'm running, but I guess 
they're not general enough.

Allin

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