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Posted: **Thu Feb 02, 2012 9:34 am**

Hi there,

I'am working with weekly data and I would like to set 5 different samples in program but I'm getting the error message

Error in Sample: Illegal date REG1 in "SMPL REG1 4/25/2003 7/13/2007"

I've trying to set the sample in different ways but none worked:

smpl reg1 4/25/2003 7/13/2007
smpl reg1 "4/25/2003" "7/13/2007"

smpl reg1 25/4/2003 13/7/2007

The date in my workfile is displayed as "1/04/1980 12/28/2012 -- 1722 obs"

I'm using Eviews 7.2

Thanks for your help

Posted: **Thu Feb 02, 2012 10:57 am**

Just delete "reg1"

Posted: **Thu Feb 02, 2012 11:24 am**

I am gonna give my solution just in case someone else have the same problem

I would like to set 5 sample sets, each representing a different regime, named reg1 to reg5.

My error was using the word "smpl" to name the sample. I had to use "sample" instead.
I didn't notice the nuance before.

So, I should be doing (the double quotes around the dates do not matter):

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sample reg1 4/25/2003 7/13/2007
sample reg2 "7/20/2007" "8/29/2008"
sample reg3 "9/5/2008" "3/6/2009"
sample reg4 "3/13/2009" "2/25/2011"
sample reg5 "3/4/2011" "1/27/2012"

for !i=1 to 5
smpl reg{!i}
freeze(pca_reg{!i}, mode=overwrite) pca_group.pcomp(cov=corr,out=table)
next

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