On Mon, 14 Dec 2009, Bender, Marina wrote:
Hi,
As I didn't get a response last week, I try it again.
I want to calculate the t- and p-values for a linear model using the Newey West
estimator.
I tried this Code and it usually worked just fine:
oberlm <- lm(DYH ~ BIP + Infl + EOil, data=HU_H)
coeftest(oberlm, NeweyWest(oberlm, lag=2))
t test of coefficients:
Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)
(Intercept) 0.1509950 0.0743832 2.0300 0.179486
BIP -5.5131683 1.2536813 -4.3976 0.048016 *
Infl -0.0623530 0.0036215 -17.2175 0.003356 **
EOil 8.6762170 0.0853216 101.6884 9.67e-05 ***
---
Signif. codes: 0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1
But then I got an error and I don't understand what it means or even why it
occurs now:
oberlm <- lm(DYI ~ BIP + BrInv_bw + EOil, data=HU_I)
coeftest(oberlm, NeweyWest(oberlm, lag=2))
Fehler in if ((dimension < 1) | (dimension > n)) stop("wrong embedding
dimension") :
Argument hat L?nge 0
Zus?tzlich: Warning message:
In log(det(varE[[m - order.min + 1]])) : NaNs wurden erzeugt
Can anyone understand there the problem is?
No, the information above is not enough to replicate the problem. I tried:
## packages
library("sandwich")
library("lmtest")
## artificial data
set.seed(123)
HU_I <- as.data.frame(matrix(rnorm(40), ncol = 4))
colnames(HU_I) <- c("DYI", "BIP", "BrInv_bw", "EOil")
## fit + test
oberlm <- lm(DYI ~ BIP + BrInv_bw + EOil, data=HU_I)
coeftest(oberlm, NeweyWest(oberlm, lag=2))
So clearly there is something going on on your side that is non-standard
in some way, e.g., HU_I or one of its columns might be of a non-standard
class, there might be too few observations or something else. I don't
know, I haven't seen the error above.
Look at the posting guide which asks you to provide a small reproducible
example. Trying to find one, often helps you to get closer to the source
of the problem. traceback() might also help you to get a (partial)
solution.
Best,
Z
Best,
Marina
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