Near Singular Matrix Error

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startz
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Re: Near Singular Matrix Error

Postby startz » Sat Jul 14, 2018 7:58 am

Even if there is heteroskedasticity, the estimated equations should be unbiased. What would you differently if you found there is heteroskedasticity?

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Re: Near Singular Matrix Error

Postby Alina03 » Sat Jul 14, 2018 8:06 am

What would you recommend to do in this case, as long as I can t perform the test on that 6 variables?

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Re: Near Singular Matrix Error

Postby Alina03 » Sat Jul 14, 2018 8:11 am

I don t know if there is heteroskedasticity or not. I want to test it.

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Re: Near Singular Matrix Error

Postby startz » Sat Jul 14, 2018 8:16 am

I would just proceed without the test.

And why do you want to test for heteroskedasticity anyway?

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Re: Near Singular Matrix Error

Postby Alina03 » Sat Jul 14, 2018 8:32 am

Because I read in an article that the VAR models have to meet the conditions regarding the quality of the residuals - the normal distribution (Normality test), the absence of heteroskedasticity (White heteroskedasticity test) and the lack of autocorrelation of the errors (Autocorrelation LM test).

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Re: Near Singular Matrix Error

Postby startz » Sat Jul 14, 2018 8:37 am

The article is just wrong.

A VAR is just a collection of least squares regressions. Normality and heteroskedasticity matter for coefficient tests, but usually no one is interested in doing those for a VAR. Autocorrelation does matter-it's usually handled by adding lags to the VAR.

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Re: Near Singular Matrix Error

Postby Alina03 » Sat Jul 14, 2018 8:57 am

Here is my autocorrelation test. Could I choose the first lag?
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Re: Near Singular Matrix Error

Postby startz » Sat Jul 14, 2018 9:24 am

This probably suggests adding one more lag to the VAR. But you have very few observations, so it's not entirely obvious whether you should.

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Re: Near Singular Matrix Error

Postby Alina03 » Sat Jul 14, 2018 10:05 am

Could I run this model with just one lag?

startz
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Re: Near Singular Matrix Error

Postby startz » Sat Jul 14, 2018 10:15 am

Perhaps run with one lag and run with two and see if it makes any difference. The real issue is that only having 20 observations limits what you can do.

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Re: Near Singular Matrix Error

Postby Alina03 » Sat Jul 14, 2018 10:19 am

Thank you so much for all you advices!

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Re: Near Singular Matrix Error

Postby Alina03 » Sat Jul 14, 2018 10:35 am

Sorry, I forgot. Should I eliminate high correlation between variables before I create the VAR?

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Re: Near Singular Matrix Error

Postby startz » Sat Jul 14, 2018 10:45 am

No, the VAR is fine with highly correlated variables.

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Re: Near Singular Matrix Error

Postby Alina03 » Sun Jul 15, 2018 5:31 am

How can I solve the problem if the normality test is p 0.000, in a VAR model?

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Re: Near Singular Matrix Error

Postby startz » Sun Jul 15, 2018 6:13 am

What do you think the problem is?


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