[R] Fixing AR coefficients in VAR model

[Spencer Graves]

Hi, Paul:

	  Thanks very much.  I'd forgotten that.

	  Moreover, you provide very nice vignettes.

Daniel C Medina:  If you are not familiar with vignettes, you may wish 
to review "http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/R/Rhelp02a/archive/67006.html" 
in addition to the vignette help page.

	  Best Wishes,
	  spencer graves

Paul Gilbert wrote:

> You can do this with dse. See
> 
>   require("dse1")
>  ?fixConstants
> 
> Paul Gilbert
> 
> Spencer Graves wrote:
> 
>>       I know of no existing functions in R that support fitting a 
>> multivariate autoregression while fixing some of the parameters.
>>
>>       Of course, as Simon Blomberg famously said in April 2005, "This 
>> is R. There is no if. Only how."  [With library(fortunes), try 
>> 'fortune("This is R")'.]  If I had to do fit a multivariate AR today 
>> with some parameters fixed, I might write a function to compute the 
>> determinant of the sample covariance matrix, and give it to "optim" or 
>> "nlminb".
>>
>>       I hope someone else will provide us with an easier way.
>>
>>       hope this helps,
>>       spencer graves
>>
>> Daniel Medina wrote:
>>
>>  
>>
>>> Dear Colleague,
>>>
>>> I would like to set a few AR coefficients (not order) to zero in the
>>> multivariate AR function (mAr.est; mAr library); however, the manual for
>>> this function does not provide this information. I would appreciate any
>>> suggestions along this line.
>>>
>>> Thankfully yours,
>>>
>>> Daniel C Medina
>>>
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>>>
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