Hi,

Thanks Sven.

I have ended up doing just that. I have convinced the student not to compare 
the regions and do panel regression.

Thanks again

Alison

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Am 23.08.2023 um 14:05 schrieb Alison Loddick:
> I’m wondering if you can help me. Firstly, I am not an > econometrician but a 
> statistician, so I know I have lots to learn. I > generally use Gretl with 
> students to teach them how to do panel > regression and correlation. ... > 
> The student has 17 years of data and wants to compare two variables > (pay 
> and productivity) over 17 regions to understand how the regions > differ over 
> time and whether the two measures have a relationship. > I’m wondering if it 
> is some sort of multivariate time series model. > > > > Can anyone help me 
> help the student?

Your question is quite broad I think, but I will try to answer as 
gretl-specific as I can. You said you're teaching panel regressions, and that's 
what I think is the natural approach here. Why not just run a fixed-effects 
regression between the two variables? For example, using the grunfeld sample 
dataset in gretl to regress 'value' on 'invest' with the standard fixed 
effects, gretl reports a LSDV-R2 of 0.96 and a within-R2 of 0.37. This is just 
to calculate a panel-context correlation between the two variables, not as a 
model per se.

Of course then you have the usual panel-related questions on whether you really 
want fixed effects and so on, but that's a different (and not directly 
gretl-related topic).

I don't see this as a time series model in the usual sense, because with 17 
regions and 2 panel variables you have 34 time series, but apparently only 17 
periods (years) of data. But if you want to have dynamic effects in your panel 
regression is of course yet another question. Finally, wanting to understand 
"how regions differ over time" strikes me as an ambitious question in general, 
because then you would need some interaction effects or maybe even time-varying 
parameters. Or maybe you just want to calculate some statistics over rolling 
windows, that's of course feasible (in principle, not saying there's a built-in 
function for that).

cheers

sven



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