On Wed, 9 Jul 2014, henrique.andrade(a)bb.com.br wrote:

> Dear Gretl Community,
> 
> I would like to know how to reproduce an automatic X-12-ARIMA specification
> inside Gretl. I'll try to explain better...
> 
> <hansl>
> open fedstl.bin
> data paynsa
> 
> smpl 2000:01
> </hansl>
> 
> Using the GUI facilities to X-12-ARIMA (Menu -> Variable -> X-12-ARIMA
> Analysis) I get the following specification:
> 
> "Final automatic model choice : (0 2 1)(0 1 1)"
> 
> And I get the following model:
> 
> <model>
> Estimation converged in   10 ARMA iterations,   31 function evaluations.
>  ARIMA Model:  (0 2 1)(0 1 1)
>    Nonseasonal differences: 2
>    Seasonal differences:    1
>                                               Standard
>  Parameter                    Estimate          Errors
>  -----------------------------------------------------
>  Nonseasonal MA                                   
>    Lag  1                       0.4834         0.06713
> 
>  Seasonal MA                                      
>    Lag 12                       0.7977         0.05225
> </model>
> 
> So I use it with the "arima" command:
> 
> <hansl>
> arima 0 2 1 ; 0 1 1 ; paynsa --nc --x-12-arima
> </hansl>
> 
> This gives me the following result:
> 
> <model>
> Modelo 3: ARIMA, usando as observações 2000:01-2014:04 (T = 172)
> Estimado usando X-12-ARIMA (Máxima verossimilhança exata)
> Variável dependente: (1-L)^2(1-Ls) paynsa
> 
>              coeficiente   erro padrão      z       p-valor
>   ----------------------------------------------------------
>   theta_1     -0,545388     0,0619664     -8,801   1,35e-018 ***
>   Theta_1     -0,789758     0,0506616    -15,59    8,66e-055 ***
> </model>
> 
> How can I exactly reproduce the model estimated by the X-12-ARIMA procedure?

Note that the "auto" x12a output includes the assessment that the log 
transformation gives a better fit. So:

<hansl>
series y = log(paynsa)
arima 0 2 1 ; 0 1 1 ; y --nc --x-12-arima
</hansl>

will replicate the results.

Allin Cottrell

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