<div dir="ltr">Hello Samuel<div><br></div><div>I don not know what you mean by "<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">the function </span><b style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">automatic </b><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">runs partially", but anyway, you can choose your specification tests with the option 'test=....' as shown in example 2 of the help file for automatic.</span></div>
<div><br></div><div>If you want to use only the Doornik-Hansen normality test, then run (shown with the example of the help file):</div><div>--> global GROCERDIR</div><div>--> load(GROCERDIR+'/data/bdhenderic.dat') ;</div>
<div>--> results=automatic('delts(lm1-lp)','lagts(lm1-lp-ly)','delts(lp)','rnet','delts(lagts(lm1-lp))', 'delts(lagts(2,lm1-lp))','delts(lagts(3,lm1-lp))','delts(lagts(4,lm1-lp))',...</div>
<div>'delts(ly)','delts(lagts(1,ly))', 'delts(lagts(2,ly))','delts(lagts(3,ly))','delts(lagts(4,ly))',...</div><div>'delts(delts(lp))','delts(delts(lagts(1,lp)))','delts(delts(lagts(2,lp)))','delts(delts(lagts(3,lp)))','delts(delts(lagts(4,lp)))',...</div>
<div>'delts(rnet)','delts(lagts(1,rnet))','delts(lagts(2,rnet))','delts(lagts(3,rnet))','delts(lagts(4,rnet))','const',...</div><div>'test=doornhans')</div><div><br>
</div><div>Alternativley if you want to obtain the display specification test, but without them constarining the estimation, tou can impose a 0 p-value for these tests with option 'eta=0':</div><div><div>-->  results=automatic('delts(lm1-lp)','lagts(lm1-lp-ly)','delts(lp)','rnet','delts(lagts(lm1-lp))', 'delts(lagts(2,lm1-lp))','delts(lagts(3,lm1-lp))','delts(lagts(4,lm1-lp))',...</div>
<div>'delts(ly)','delts(lagts(1,ly))', 'delts(lagts(2,ly))','delts(lagts(3,ly))','delts(lagts(4,ly))',...</div><div>'delts(delts(lp))','delts(delts(lagts(1,lp)))','delts(delts(lagts(2,lp)))','delts(delts(lagts(3,lp)))','delts(delts(lagts(4,lp)))',...</div>
<div>'delts(rnet)','delts(lagts(1,rnet))','delts(lagts(2,rnet))','delts(lagts(3,rnet))','delts(lagts(4,rnet))','const',...</div><div>'eta=0')</div></div><div><br></div>
<div>Éric.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2014-08-18 0:01 GMT+02:00 Samuel Enibe <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:samuel.enibe@unn.edu.ng" target="_blank">samuel.enibe@unn.edu.ng</a>></span>:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I would like to use the <b>automatic</b> function in the Grocer SCILAB package to eliminate some non significant variables in a linear regression problem. The function <b>ols</b> runs successfully on the data. In contrast, the function <b>automatic</b> runs partially, suggesting that it should be run without the specification tests. Is there any way to eliminate one or more of the specification tests?<br>

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The user manual is not clear on this.<br>
Your suggestions will be highly appropriated.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
<span><font color="#888888"><br>Samuel Enibe<br></font></span></font></span></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div class="gmail_quote"><span><font color="#888888">University of Nigeria, Nsukka<br></font></span></div>
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