The UCM Procedure

OUTEST= Data Set

You can use the OUTEST= option in the ESTIMATE statement to store the model parameters and the related estimation details. This data set contains the following columns:

  • the BY variables

  • COMPONENT, a character variable containing the name of the component corresponding to the parameter being described

  • PARAMETER, a character variable containing the parameter name

  • TYPE, a character variable indicating whether the parameter value was fixed by the user or estimated

  • _STATUS_, a character variable indicating whether the parameter estimation process converged or failed or there was an error of some other kind

  • ESTIMATE, a numerical variable containing the parameter estimate

  • STD, a numerical variable containing the standard error of the parameter estimate. This has a missing value if the parameter value is fixed.

  • TVALUE, a numerical variable containing the t-statistic. This has a missing value if the parameter value is fixed.

  • PVALUE, a numerical variable containing the p-value. This has a missing value if the parameter value is fixed.