Am 19.10.2010 08:34, schrieb Talha Yalta:
 I got this weird output for the Portmanteau test. Maybe worth a
check?
 Talha
 
 
 VAR system, lag order 7
 OLS estimates, observations 1989-2008 (T = 20)
 Log-likelihood = 189.21287
 Determinant of covariance matrix = 2.0779778e-011
 AIC = -15.3213
 BIC = -13.5290
 HQC = -14.9714
 Portmanteau test: LB(5) = 76.5391, df = -8
[179769313486231570000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000.0000]
 
 Equation 1: LN_GDP
 ... 
Maybe it's related to 7 lags and 20 obs, which may run already into
d.o.f. problems? Of course the behavior is still a bug.
-sven