Excel Example of an AR(1) Model from Eviews

[medlo]

Basic ? Anyone have an example of an excel implementation of EViews output of an AR(1) model that they can post? Thanks

[EViews Gareth]

I'm not sure I follow what you're asking. Are you asking if someone has an Excel example of the estimation of an AR(1) model? Or are you asking if someone has put EViews output into Excel (which seems like a trivial question)?

[medlo]

yes an Excel example of an AR(1) thx

[EViews Gareth]

Again, are you asking of an example of Excel calculating an AR(1)?

[shhgc2]

I am not sure that I catched what you means. but you can use below inputcode and translate to excel.
Excel has a random generator.

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wfcreate AR a 1950 2000 'creating indepedent variable series x=7*@sin(@trend+1) 'creating error term with N(0,1) series u=nrnd series e=u 'creating error term with ar(1) and rho is 0.85 'error term(u) =0.85*u(-1)+e 'creating dependent variable series y=x+(0.85*u(-1)+e) equation out1.ls y x show out1 equation out2.ls y x ar(1) show out2

[trubador]

As I understand, you are willing to build an AR(1) model in Excel and to compare the estimation results with those of EViews'. I believe you are trying to understand the underlying mechanism of AR estimations. Such exercises (both specification and estimation) are very difficult to be carried out in Excel, since it is a data-centric program. In other words, EViews assigns your time series data into a single variable, whereas Excel stores in cells.

There is a small difference in the code written by shhgc2. If you generate the series y = x + (0.85*u(-1)+e)) and estimate is as equation out2.ls y x ar(1) the results will be different than you expect, since the latter means you actually estimate y = c(1)*x + [ar(1) = c(2)]. Other than that, it is very useful and in the file attached you will find the Excel version this code. The only difference is that I preferred to include the c(1) coefficient and assigned 0.5 as its simulated value.

Please note that, estimation of the model in Excel requires Solver add-in. In worksheet, you will also find the output from EViews for comparison purposes.

AR1 example.xls

AR1 Example in Excel

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[shhgc2]

That's good excel example. and a good explanation from trubador.
I just add some comments. in equation y = x + (0.85*u(-1)+e)), y = c(1)*x + [ar(1) = c(2)], My code is that c(1)=1 for simplifying the coefficient.
so, if you do simulation, you can easily find the c(1)=1. I also attached simulation code.

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wfcreate AR a 1950 2000 series x=7*@sin(@trend+1) for !j= 1 to 1000 series u{!j}=nrnd series e{!j}=u{!j} series y{!j}=1*x+(0.85*u{!j}(-1)+e{!j}) equation out2{!j}.ls y{!j} x ar(1) series beta1(!j)=out2{!j}.@coef(1) next show beta1.stats

[medlo]

Many hanks for the insightful comments and for taking the time to respond. Happy Holidays all.

[colden]

I am trying to recreate predicted values from an AR(1) model outputted by EViews using Excel. I found the Excel example posted here very helpful but I was wondering if someone could expand it to show how exactly EViews calculates its predicted values using the "Static Forecast" option. Specifically, I cannot arrive at EViews' predicted values using Excel and I believe it is because I am not understanding how the AR(1) term enters into the equation. Could someone please explain exactly how EViews arrives at its predicted values using actual numbers from the Excel example posted earlier in this thread? Thanks,

Chris Oldenburg
chris_oldenburg@hotmail.com

[EViews Gareth]

At some point over the next few days I might write up a more general explanation of how AR estimation/forecasting in EViews works, but for now, here's a program I have lying on my hard disk that should explain forecasting a simple ar:

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rndseed 1 create u 100 series x=nrnd series y=nrnd equation e1.ls y c x ar(1) 'Static Forecast series restemp=y-c(1)-c(2)*x smpl 20 100 e1.fit yhats1 'EViews fitted values (static) series yhats2=c(1)+c(2)*x+c(3)*restemp(-1) 'completely manual calculation 'Dynamic Forecast e1.forecast yhatd1 'EViews fitted values (dynamic) smpl 20 20 series yhatd2=c(1)+c(2)*x+c(3)*restemp(-1) 'manual calculation of first value smpl 21 100 series yhatd2 = c(1)+c(2)*x+c(3)*(yhatd2(-1)-c(1)-c(2)*x(-1)) 'manual calculation of other values. smpl 20 100 show yhatd1 yhatd2

[colden]

Thank you for your program. I have used the data from the previous Excel example, estimated and forecasted using EViews, and then compared EViews' predicted values to those resulting from your calculation method. The two are slightly different, and the differences are too large to be due to rounding I think. Please see attached. Thanks,

Chris

[EViews Gareth]

http://forums.eviews.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=465

[ar2]

Hi folks,

The excel example for ar(1) forecast is truly helpful. It enabled us to build a tool to forecast the outcome based on various scenarios for the independent variables. I tried to expand the excel example to ar(2) cases without any success. Is there a similar excel example available when the equation includes ar(2)?

Thanks!
-John

[EViews Gareth]

No, but it is a trivial extension.

[ar2]

Can you possibly help build an example, Gareth? I have been using models without ar(2) due to implementation hurdle.

Actually the particular model has both ar(1) and ar(2) in the equation...

Thanks!