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State space estimation

Posted: Tue May 06, 2014 1:05 am
by wolly77
Hi, could somebody please help me clarify this point? Thank you in advance for the help.
I am estimating a state space model of this kind:

@SIGNAL D(log(prod)) = SV1 + c(1)*Gap + [VAR=EXP(C(2))]
@STATE SV1 = c(3)*SV1(-1) + [VAR=EXP(C(4))]

c(1) is a fixed regression coefficient. How is it estimated c(1) in State Space framework? Is it obtained via Maximum likelihood (ML) or OLS?
I think that only unobservable components and variances are estimated via ML, because if I run an OLS of this kind:

D(log(prod)) = sv1 + c(1)*Gap,

c(1) in OLS and in state space are equal. Thank you.

Re: State space estimation

Posted: Tue May 06, 2014 6:03 am
by startz
Maximum likelihood.

But, of course, in some circumstances OLS and MLE are the same thing.