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syntax error

Posted: Fri Sep 25, 2009 8:06 am
by coelhoindy
hi

I am running a regression, but i get the error message: syntax error

what does it mean?

indy

Re: syntax error

Posted: Fri Sep 25, 2009 8:14 am
by startz
It means EViews thinks you typed the command incorrectly.

Re: syntax error

Posted: Fri Sep 25, 2009 8:15 am
by coelhoindy
but I have typed many different times, and it does not look like iam typing wrongly.

Re: syntax error

Posted: Fri Sep 25, 2009 8:56 am
by startz
Apparently it looks wrong to EViews...

You might copy and paste the line you are typing here, and perhaps even post your workfile. No one can guess what you've typed.

Re: syntax error

Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2009 6:02 am
by coelhoindy
I want to transform my AD series into Log AD and thats whta I have typed into generete series:
lad=log(ad)-log(ad(-1))

I get this message: String argument passed to numeric log function.

I have attached my excel file.

Thanks, indira

Re: syntax error

Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2009 6:03 am
by coelhoindy
I want to transform my AD series into Log AD and thats whta I have typed into generete series:
lad=log(ad)-log(ad(-1))

I get this message: String argument passed to numeric log function.

I have attached my excel file.

Thanks, indira

Re: syntax error

Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2009 7:09 am
by startz
Is AD a numeric series or an alpha series?
(By the way, it's better to post your EViews file for people to look at.)