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- From: thompson@atlas.socsci.umn.edu (T. Scott Thompson)
- Subject: Re: Looking for Time Series Analysis software
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- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 18:23:04 GMT
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- wut@acf3.NYU.EDU (Tom Wu) writes:
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- > There is a package called RATS (Regression Analysis of
- >Time Series) that is very popular among academics. I have seen
- >it being used by Columbia's Business School research center and
- >Citicorp's internal research dept. It is basically a high level
- >programming language that's capable of doing regrssions, ARIMA
- >model fitting and lots of Stat functions that I don't understand.
- >I think that it's distributed by VAR. I could check on that if
- >you are interested. The version I have is very old, and I am
- >not sure if they are making new versions of it.
-
- RATS is very much alive. It is sold by the maker: VAR Econometrics.
- I don't have any more detailed information. RATS was reviewed in the
- Journal of Applied Econometrics sometime during the past few years.
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