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That seems to work but the equations in which I use Log generate errors: LOG is an illegal or reserved name in "DO_ EQ_XX10012503.
FORECAST LOG(XX10012503)_F". Below is the code I am using:

use @makevalidname

Hi Gareth,

This works but is not exactly what I need given the set up I already have in E-views and it would mean further work. I am trying to include and IF statement in order to trim the invalid names in order to make valid ones (since all the names follow the same pattern and the ones that are invalids are the ones with log). It would be something like this, but since I am new in E-views programming I am not sure about how to include if statements. Could you help me out please?

Or perhaps loop through both the equations and the series names? but I am not sure how to get the two loops to work properly

This doesn't seem to do the trick

I got it! this worked:

It was so simple! Thanks anyway.

Hi Gareth,

As the following step in this process, I am trying to write a program that after estimating an equation (or rather a batch of equations), looks at the residuals and if the last data point is outside the bands of the residuals graph, put a dummy in the equation with the date associated with that observation. For example, since I have monthly data, a dummy of the type: @event("2018.02") for the last month of data.

Perhaps accessing the residuals table: eqname.resids(t)?
I just don't know how to access the elements of that table in order to write a IF statement or something similar.

Thank you in advance for any help that you can provide.

Hello,

It would probably be easier to use the makeresids proc to copy the residuals to a series and then access that series.

Hi Gareth,

I have been trying with the makeresids proc and it works for generating series for each equation's residuals, but when I try to generate series for the dates of those series, the dates are shifted. I can't figure out why isn't working properly.

Thank you in advance for your help.

Just use "@date" instead of "@date(res{%eq})". You generate dates based on the workfile sample and frequency, not on a specific series. The "(res{%eq})" term shifts the dates by the amount of the first residual, which you observed.

Thank you for replying Gareth. What I am trying to do is to get the last date for which the series have data (the data of the most recent data point), since I am trying to add a dummy for that date if certain conditions are met. I've been trying something like this but it doesn't work too well.

x.@last will return the date (as a string) of the last non-NA observation in series x.

Thank you for replying Matt.

When I try the following it generates an error:
NA found in matrix in "IF @LAST(RESEQ_XX001) >
RESEQ_XX001 + @STDERRS(RESEQ_XX001) OR
@LAST(RESEQ_XX001) < RESEQ_XX001 -
@STDERRS(RESEQ_XX001) THEN"

I am basically trying to put a dummy if the last data point is outside of the residuals' one standard error bands

I believe what you're after is:

Thank you so much! This is exactly what I was trying to do. It only needed an extra pair of quote marks in the @event()

How could I generalized this for any observation outside the residuals bands? Something like


But I get an error " Non Numeric Argument".

Thank you.