RE: Theil on a vector

[nvellodi]

Hello,

I want to use the Theil inequality statistic on a vector (which has a different dimension to the sample size). It seems to say in the manual that any of the descriptive statistics should be available for matrix objects, but when I try it, Eviews says it's illegal, as @theil is reserved for series objects. I've clearly misunderstood something here.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Nikhil

[EViews Gareth]

Not all functions will work on vectors as well as series. You can always use the @mtos function to convert the vector into a series, then use @theil on it, though.