Newey West T-Stats

[Benn]

Hi Guys,

I am currently trying to compute the Newey West T-stats and Standard Errors for my regressions.

The following code is what I found on the net:

PROC MODEL DATA=A;

PARMS B0 B1 B2;

Y=B0+ B1*X1 + B2*X2;

FIT Y / GMM KERNEL = (BART,1,0);

INSTRUMENTS X1 X2;

TEST X1 X2;

RUN;

There are a couple of things I hope you guys can help with clarifying:

1) Fourth Line of the code (BART,1,0); can I change the numbers "1" and "0" to some other numbers? And if I can, what does it do?

2) Can this code be written such that it regresses within defined parameters; this is something that I have been doing with the regular regression code:

PROC REG

DATA=FF_VW_GROSS OUTEST=VW_ALPHA NOPRINT;

BY R_RET;

MODEL RET_RF=VWRETD_RF SMB HML UMD;

RUN;

So the by statement confines the regression to the Variable R_RET.  I am wondering if the PROC MODEL command can do something similar?

Thanks a lot guys! Any help is greatly appreciated!

[Cynthia_sas]

Hi:
  My suggestions would be:
1) That you post this question in the Statistical Procedures forum (https://communities.sas.com/community/support-communities/sas_statistical_procedures) where more folks might work with PROC MODEL and
2) That you check out the PROC MODEL documentation, where there seems to be quite a section on the KERNEL= option and the estimation "math" behind the values you specify. Relevant links are:
 
http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/etsug/63939/HTML/default/viewer.htm#etsug_model_sect019....
where it starts the doc:
KERNEL=PARZEN | BART | QS
specifies the kernel to be used for GMM and ITGMM. PARZEN selects the Parzen kernel, BART selects the Bartlett kernel, and QS selects the quadratic spectral kernel. and are used to compute the bandwidth parameter. The default is KERNEL=(PARZEN, 1, 0.2). See the section Estimation Methods (http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/etsug/63939/HTML/default/viewer.htm#etsug_model_sect036....) for more details.)

The "math" is in the Estimation section of the doc and that is where it verifies that BART corresponds to the Newey-West: "The "Newey-West" kernel (Newey and West 1987) corresponds to the Bartlett kernel with bandwidth parameter." It seems to me that in order to understand what changing the numbers will do, you have to understand the estimation formula.

cynthia