Hello everybody, I have a problem with the the function PVCM in the plm package:
I have an unbalanced panel with over 200 companies and 1 to 14 years for each company. I already excluded all NAs: > dataset<-na.omit(dataset) Now I'm trying to fit a variable coefficients model: > model_vc <- pvcm(v1 ~ lag(v2,1), model="within", data=dataset) This results in the following error message: "Fehler in lm.fit(x, y, offset = offset, singular.ok = singular.ok, ...) : 0 (non-NA) cases" I can't figure out what's wrong... Can somebody help me, please? Thanks so much! Johannes PS: Here's additional information on my dataset: > str(dataset) Classes ‘plm.dim’ and 'data.frame': 1531 obs. of 4 variables: $ company: Factor w/ 210 levels "1164","1177",..: 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ... $ year : Factor w/ 16 levels "1993","1994",..: 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 ... $ v1 : num 0.0993 0.1488 0.0604 0.0902 0.0573 ... $ v2 : int 75 75 78 72 74 73 70 70 70 67 ... - attr(*, "na.action")=Class 'omit' Named int [1:979] 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 26 39 40 ... .. ..- attr(*, "names")= chr [1:979] "12" "13" "14" "15" ... > summary(dataset) company year v1 v2 3121 : 15 2007 :136 Min. :-1.05746 Min. :49.00 8762 : 15 2006 :128 1st Qu.: 0.08706 1st Qu.:71.00 1382 : 14 2005 :125 Median : 0.12834 Median :76.00 1388 : 14 2003 :119 Mean : 0.13399 Mean :75.37 1440 : 14 2004 :119 3rd Qu.: 0.18909 3rd Qu.:80.00 1663 : 14 2002 :115 Max. : 0.71280 Max. :90.00 (Other):1445 (Other):789 -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Problem-with-PVCM%3A-%220-%28non-NA%29-cases%22-tp21933499p21933499.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.