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Hi,

I would like to modify an existing group which contains 5 time-series, of which the first time series is the dependant variable.
I want to create a new group which only includes those rows of the old group, for which the dependant variable is less than zero.

Then save the adjusted data set as a new group (so I don't want to use sample).

Groups contain series, and series all have to have the same number of observations. Thus you can't create a group that contains a subset of of rows of another group. Groups all have the same number of rows.

Thank you Gareth,

What I meant was: suppose a group has 5 series, 1st one being a dependant variable, and 30 rows.

Suppose, I only want the rows with a dependant variable that is negative. Dependant variables with negative values can be found in rows 16-30.

Then the new group contains a 15x5 matrix of the data that can be found in rows 16-30, and columns 1-5.

How do I do this?

Thanks

Thank you Startz

However, I would like to create a new group, which is a subset of an existing group.

I would need a function so that the new group contains data from the old group, but only with those rows where the dependant variable is negative.

Amy help would be greatly appreciated.

In EViews, groups are just collections of series and all series in a workfile page are the same length. You can exclude observations from processing by using the smpl command or by setting elements equal to NA.

If you want, I suppose you could do