That makes a lot of sense. Thank you, Rui!

On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 3:41 PM, Rui Barradas <ruipbarra...@sapo.pt> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> From the help page for ?adf.test: "The p-values are interpolated from
> Table 4.2, p. 103 of Banerjee et al. (1993)."
>
> I believe it's a problem with your data. Putting a print statement in the
> code for adf.test() gave me the following:
>
>
> Call:
> lm(formula = yt ~ xt1 + 1 + tt + yt1)
>
> Residuals:
> ALL 3 residuals are 0: no residual degrees of freedom!
>
> Coefficients: (1 not defined because of singularities)
>             Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)
> (Intercept)  -24.319         NA      NA       NA
> xt1           -3.115         NA      NA       NA
> tt            18.087         NA      NA       NA
> yt1               NA         NA      NA       NA
>
> Residual standard error: NaN on 0 degrees of freedom
> Multiple R-squared:      1,     Adjusted R-squared:    NaN
> F-statistic:   NaN on 2 and 0 DF,  p-value: NA
>
>
>
> And the test statistic becomes NaN (Not a Number). It's computed as
> coefficients[2, 1]/coefficients[2, 2] or -3.115/NA.
> So when it tries to interpolate the p-value, the variable 'interpol' is
> equal to NaN and the if test fails.
>
> With a standard error like NA, maybe you don't have enough data points to
> run the tests. (Only 3 residuals, all zero, like seen above.)
>
>
> Rui Barradas
>
> Em 24-06-2013 20:12, Olga Musayev escreveu:
>
>> Rui-- thanks so much for the help!
>>
>> I'm getting this error though, which is leaving me stumped:
>>
>> test<-lapply(ids, function(i) {
>>        if(!any(is.na <http://is.na>(df[df$ID==i,3])**))
>>
>> {adf.test(df[df$ID==i, 3])} else {NA} })
>>
>>      Error in if (interpol == min(tablep)) warning("p-value smaller than
>> printed p-value") else warning("p-value greater than printed p-value") :
>>        missing value where TRUE/FALSE needed
>>
>> Any idea what this could mean?
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 4:54 PM, Rui Barradas <ruipbarra...@sapo.pt
>> <mailto:ruipbarra...@sapo.pt>> wrote:
>>
>>     Hello,
>>
>>     Sorry, I forgot to Cc the list.
>>
>>     Rui Barradas
>>
>>     Em 23-06-2013 21:44, Rui Barradas escreveu:
>>
>>         Hello,
>>
>>         See if the following does what you want.
>>
>>         lapply(seq_len(obsv), function(i) adf.test(df[df$ID == i, 3]))
>>
>>
>>         Hope this helps,
>>
>>         Rui Barradas
>>
>>         Em 23-06-2013 19:12, Olga Musayev escreveu:
>>
>>             Short question: Is it possible to use statistical tests,
>>             like the
>>             Augmented
>>             Dickey-Fuller test, in functions with for-loops? If not, are
>>             there any
>>             alternative ways to scale measures?
>>
>>             Detailed explanation: I am working with time-series, and I
>>             want to flag
>>             curves that are not stationary and which display pulses,
>>             trends, or level
>>             shifts.
>>
>>                 df
>>
>>
>>             DATE          ID VALUE2012-03-06    1   5.672012-03-07    1
>>             3.452012-03-08    1   4.562012-03-09    1   20.302012-03-10
>>  1
>>             5.102012-03-06    2   5.672012-03-07    2   3.452012-03-08
>>  2
>>             4.562012-03-09    2   5.282012-03-10    2   5.102012-03-06
>>  3
>>             5.672012-03-07    3   7.802012-03-08    3   8.792012-03-09
>>  3
>>             9.432012-03-10    3   10.99
>>
>>                You can see, object 2 is stationary, but 3 exhibits a
>>             trend and 1 has a
>>             pulse at 3/09.
>>
>>             What I want, in pseudo-code:
>>
>>             flag<- list()
>>             for (i in 1:length(obsv)) {
>>                    if adf.test(i) FAIL {
>>                          append(flag, i)
>>                          }}
>>
>>             What I have so far:
>>
>>                 library(tseries)
>>                 adf.test(df[which(df$ID==1), 3])
>>
>>             Augmented Dickey-Fuller Test
>>
>>             data:  dataDickey-Fuller = 11.1451, Lag order = 16, p-value
>>             = 0.01null
>>             hypothesis: non-stationary
>>
>>                 adf.test(df[which(df$ID==2), 3])
>>
>>             Augmented Dickey-Fuller Test
>>
>>             data:  dataDickey-Fuller = 11.1451, Lag order = 16, p-value
>>             = 0.99
>>             alternative hypothesis: stationary
>>
>>                 adf.test(df[which(df$ID==3), 3])Augmented Dickey-Fuller
>> Test
>>
>>
>>             data:  dataDickey-Fuller = 11.1451, Lag order = 16, p-value
>>             = 0.04null
>>             hypothesis: non-stationary
>>
>>                How can I use this output in a for-loop? Thank you in
>>             advance!
>>
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