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Hi,

I'm trying to get the number of observations in an alpha series but I keep getting the error message: Alpha sent to function which operates on a matrix:


WfCreate(wf=unstruct, page=test) u 10
Alpha aAlphaSeries = "A"
!iK = @Last(aAlphaSeries)
!iK = @Obs(aAlphaSeries)

/Erik.

Try alpha.@first or alpha.@last

Hi,

It works but I must say the code could be improved.... I have an alpha series called "a" with 21 observations of which the 21st is empty/missing.

a.@first returns the string 21 - I would expect a string with the first observation
a.@last returns the string 20 - I would expect a string with the last observation, or an integer containing the index of the last non-missing observation
a.@obs returns 0 - I would like it to return the number of non-missing observations.

I am working in an unstructured/undated workfile, I guess it might work differently in a dated workfile.

/Erik.

I can't replicate this. Could you post an example?

Neither can I it seems for the @first function! I'm slightly confused now because I'm pretty sure it returned 21, but I guess I was mistaken.

Nevertheless @obs returns zero - as in the example below, but that's not a big problem, I'll just avoid that function when dealing with alphas.

Hi again,

It would be nice if the @obs function did work, since @last will not give a currect number of non-missing observations if the alpha series has 'holes' in it.

/Erik.

I'll see that it gets added for the next version.

ok, I added support for the @obs data member on alpha series into EViews 8. Next patch should have it.

I'll also add support for the @obs() function for EViews 9.

Great, thanks!

Hi,

One follow up question that is related: How do I store the number of observations of a alpha series as a series?

I tried:

series count=alpha.@obs

but the count shows all 0.

Any idea?

Thanks,
BC