Error Using dwtest
On Wednesday 04 June 2003 16:44, rwatkins at cornerstonelp.com wrote:
Hello all-
I have two time series, Index1stdiff and Comps1stdiff. I regressed
the first on the second and R returned the summary stats I expected.
Then I looked at and plotted the residuals. I then wanted to
assess autocorrelation characteristics and tried to run a
Durbin-Watson using:
library(lmtest)
dwtest(formula=Index1stdiff~Comps1stdiff,alternative=c("greater"))
I am getting the following error:
Error in solve.default(crossprod(X), tol = tol) :
Lapack routine dgesv: system is exactly singular
Can anyone assess why my attempt crashes? I tried this earlier on
what I thought was similar data and was returned an answer for "d"
and a "p-value".
It means that the cross product X'X of your model matrix X, which is computed by X <- model.matrix(formula, data = data) is exactly singular and thus cannot be inverted. In such a case dwtest() cannot compute the p value. You might want to try durbin.watson() in the package car which uses a different approach for computing the p value. Best, Z
Thanks in advance for your assistance. Rick
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