On Wed, 6 Dec 2006, Paulino Perez Rodriguez wrote: > > Why the standadard errors of the coefficientes of the arma > models fited by using the arima procedure in the stats > package doesnt coincide with that of S+, minitab or SAS?
Possibly because R is using superior methodology (full ML fitting). Note that the help page says: The results are likely to be different from S-PLUS's 'arima.mle', which computes a conditional likelihood and does not include a mean in the model. Further, the convention used by 'arima.mle' reverses the signs of the MA coefficients. -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.