This is somewhat technical and I'd advise you post to R-Sig-Finance and cc the package maintainer, Dr Pfaff, directly. Use maintainer("urca") to get his email.
Cheers, Michael On Aug 21, 2012, at 4:48 AM, Rmillan <emiln_leifs...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Hi all R users, > > I'm trying to replicate the same results that are given in a published > article after been granted > the same data that the authors use. > I'm having problems to determine the cointegration rank of my data set using > the Johnasen's trace test. > This trace test is already programmed in the package ur.ca and can be found > in the function > ca.jo(). > After I run the ca.jo() function on my data set I get the following output: > > Values of teststatistic and critical values of test: > > test 10pct 5pct 1pct > r<=10 9.71 7.52 9.24 12.97 > r<=9 24.18 17.85 19.96 24.6 > r<=8 45.16 32 34.91 41.07 > r<=7 74.12 49.65 53.12 60.16 > r<=6 113.96 71.86 76.07 84.45 > r<=5 158.58 97.18 102.14 111.01 > r<=4 207.95 126.58 131.7 143.09 > r<=3 278.29 159.48 165.58 177.2 > r<=2 361.34 196.37 202.92 215.74 > r<=1 481.09 236.54 244.15 257.68 > r=0 626.23 282.45 291.4 307.64 > >> From this output I would conclude that the cointegration rank is either 9 or > 10. > If I run the same test in Stata I get completly different numbers, > especially for my test values. These values > actually correspond to the values the authors get in the article. From that > output I would conclude > that the conintegration rank is either 6 or 7, which would give me completly > different result > when estimating the VECM model then if I use cointegration rank equal to 9 > or 10. > Can anyone explain why this difference occurs? > Thanks in advance. > > Best regards, > > Emil > > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Trace-values-in-the-function-ca-jo-tp4640876.html > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org 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. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org 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.