Hi Bill,

Tell me more about the Obs object. The "subset" of an lm should be a vector
telling the lm which observations to use...if Obs[197,396] is a single
number, only one observation will be used, and chances are your model is not
what you intended.
Also, predict(result1,newdata=Obs[397,339]) needs that cell in Obs to have a
column called "SP500 index," and predict.lm (check the man page for it) will
only return one number, the prediction for the given new data.

If you want it to have 3 numbers, maybe Obs[397:399] is what you want? The
colon means "397 through 399, inclusive" while the comma means "row 397,
column 399".  If this is your mistake, you actually want "subset=197:396,
data=Obs" in your call to lm.

Hope this helped.

--Adam

On Thu, 11 Sep 2008, Xianchun Liao wrote:

I am an R beginner and trying to run a market model using event study in
R framework.



First, I run a market model, that is lm(stock security~SP500 index,
subset=Obs[197, 396]) ->result1

Then I get predict results for a  new dataset using predict (result1,
newdata=Obs[397,399]) ->pred1

Pred1 should have three numbers.



Now I need to calculate abnormal return by the formula stock security
[397,399] -pred1

But it does not work after trying many times.



So, how to write a R code to implement the formula and get right
results.





Thanks,



Bill


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