ESTIMATE options ;

The ESTIMATE statement estimates the regARIMA model. The regARIMA model is specified by the REGRESSION, INPUT, EVENT, and ARIMA statements or by the MDLINFOIN= data set. Estimation output includes point estimates and standard errors for all estimated AR, MA, and regression parameters; the maximum likelihood estimate of the variance ; t statistics for individual regression parameters; statistics for assessing the joint significance of the parameters associated with certain regression effects (if included in the model); and likelihood-based model selection statistics (if the exact likelihood function is used). The regression effects for which statistics are produced are fixed seasonal effects.

Tables displayed in the output associated with estimation are "Exact ARMA Likelihood Estimation Iteration Tolerances," "Average Absolute Percentage Error in within-Sample Forecasts," "ARMA Iteration History," "AR/MA Roots," "Exact ARMA Likelihood Estimation Iteration Summary," "Regression Model Parameter Estimates," " Chi-Squared Tests for Groups of Regressors," "Exact ARMA Maximum Likelihood Estimation," and "Estimation Summary."

The following options can appear in the ESTIMATE statement.

MAXITER=value

specifies the maximum number of iterations (for estimating the AR and MA parameters) allowed. For models with regression variables, this limit applies to the total number of ARMA iterations over all iterations of the iterative generalized least squares (IGLS) algorithm. For models without regression variables, this is the maximum number of iterations allowed for the set of ARMA iterations. The default is MAXITER=200.

TOL=value

specifies the convergence tolerance for the nonlinear estimation. Absolute changes in the log-likelihood are compared to the TOL= value to check convergence of the estimation iterations. For models with regression variables, the TOL= value is used to check convergence of the IGLS iterations (where the regression parameters are reestimated for each new set of AR and MA parameters). For models without regression variables, there are no IGLS iterations, and the TOL= value is then used to check convergence of the nonlinear iterations used to estimate the AR and MA parameters. The default value is TOL=0.00001. The minimum tolerance value is a positive value based on the machine precision and the length of the series. If a tolerance less than the minimum supported value is specified, an error message is displayed and the series is not processed.

ITPRINT

specifies that the "Iterations History" table be displayed. This includes detailed output for estimation iterations (including log-likelihood values and parameters) and counts of function evaluations and iterations. It is useful to examine the "Iterations History" table when errors occur within estimation iterations. By default, only successful iterations are displayed, unless the PRINTERR option is specified. An unsuccessful iteration is an iteration that is restarted due to a problem such as a root inside the unit circle. Successful iterations have a status of 0. If restarted iterations are displayed, a note at the end of the table gives definitions for status codes that indicate a restarted iteration. For restarted iterations, the number of function evaluations and the number of iterations will be –1, which is displayed as missing. If regression parameters are included in the model, then both IGLS and ARMA iterations are included in the table. The number of function evaluations is a cumulative total.

PRINTERR

causes restarted iterations to be included in the "Iterations History" table (if ITPRINT is specified) or creates the "Restarted Iterations" table (if ITPRINT is not specified). Whether or not PRINTERR is specified, a WARNING message is printed to the log file if any iteration is restarted during estimation.