Help with stepls combinatory?

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Help with stepls combinatory?

Postby danielb » Tue Dec 05, 2017 4:23 pm

I have 13 regressors and I have to find the best combination based on the Akaike Information Criterion. Being new to programming in EViews, the closest way I found was by using stepls combinatory, but it yields the model that presents the largest R-square, instead of the lowest AIC. How could I change that? If not possible, any tips on solving my problem? I also saw some programs involving for loops but they don't seem suitable for the case where we have 13 regressors (over 8000 equations). Any help would be extremely appreciated.

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Re: Help with stepls combinatory?

Postby EViews Gareth » Tue Dec 05, 2017 7:06 pm

13 choose how many?
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Re: Help with stepls combinatory?

Postby danielb » Tue Dec 05, 2017 7:09 pm

It doesn't matter, i could use 1 of them or all 13, i just have to found the smallest AIC. That's the problem: i need to run through ALL possible combinations of the 13... the ones that only use 1, the ones that use 2, and so on.

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Re: Help with stepls combinatory?

Postby EViews Gareth » Tue Dec 05, 2017 7:19 pm

ok, that's not cominbatorial then.

I have a hunch that for a fixed number of regressors, minimising AIC is the same as maximising R^2 (in a linear regression). So you could just run STEPLS for each number of regressors, then compare the AICs from the chosen ones.
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Re: Help with stepls combinatory?

Postby danielb » Tue Dec 05, 2017 7:22 pm

That's what i thought too... and i did exactly that. I used stepls combinatorial to run all models and compared the AIC's. Unfortunately, our hunch is not right: maximizing R-squared is not necessarily the same thing as minimizing AIC, so I could not rely on that result. :( :(


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