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Thanks Gareth,
This is really helpful. A lot to digest - I will have to take some time to think about it.
Linda

I finally got out IT to update EViews and it is working fine but the model estimates I get do not seem to be stable - if I run the program twice I get different models selected for some series, sometimes even if they have converged within the 500 iterations - is this normal and if so why ? I attach ...

Sorry, didn't read all your post - it is the Enterprise Edition May 1 2015 build, thanks.

Yes, I think so - EViews 9 ((.5 as far as I am aware).

Sure thing, here it is, thanks.

Hi, I am using quarterly data with autoarma to generate 5 year out forecasts in EViews 9.5. When I run the code on any single series it works fine but when I try to do all the series (441) the program crashes - I get a message saying that EViews9 has stopped working and I need to close it - but the ...

Thanks Gareth, your suggestion worked - I now know which series are failing and why/how. All the best, Linda

Hope so,the code and the program log are attached as is the final error message. The specs referenced in the program are at the end of the error message.

Would sending you the program and an example of the program log help?

I am using a loop to decompose multiple time series (using X13.SEATS) with permissible errors set to 1000 so it runs through all the series. For almost all the error messages I get in the program log the series are identified as SER{!I} is it possible to capture the actual series number(s)?