10:37 a.m.
Hi
Allin's suggestions seems like a good one since knowing the starting
period is not necessary.
Thanks all for the help.
Walt
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> From: "Data Analytics Corp." <walt(a)dataanalyticscorp.com>
> Subject: [Gretl-users] extracting month number
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> Hi,
>
> I have a monthly time series of the Dow Jones Industrial Index beginning
> 1928:10. I'd like to create a new variable that is just the month
> number: 10, 11, 12, 1, 2, 3,.... How can I do this? I thought there
> would be a month function in Gretl, but I don't see one. This question,
> of course, extends to the year (1928, 1928, 1929, 1929,...) and quarter
> if I have quarterly data.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Walt
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> Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2012 22:40:23 +0200 (CEST)
> From: "Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti" <r.lucchetti(a)univpm.it>
> Subject: Re: [Gretl-users] extracting month number
> To: walt(a)dataanalyticscorp.com, Gretl list <gretl-users(a)lists.wfu.edu>
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> On Sun, 16 Sep 2012, Data Analytics Corp. wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a monthly time series of the Dow Jones Industrial Index beginning
>> 1928:10. I'd like to create a new variable that is just the month
>> number: 10, 11, 12, 1, 2, 3,.... How can I do this? I thought there
>> would be a month function in Gretl, but I don't see one. This question,
>> of course, extends to the year (1928, 1928, 1929, 1929,...) and quarter
>> if I have quarterly data.
> Does this help?
>
> <hansl>
> open bjg.gdt
> series year = 1949 + floor((t-1)/12)
> series month = 1 + ((t-1)%12)
> </hansl>
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti
> Dipartimento di Economia
>
> Universit? Politecnica delle Marche
> (formerly known as Universit? di Ancona)
>
> r.lucchetti(a)univpm.it
> http://www2.econ.univpm.it/servizi/hpp/lucchetti
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> Message: 3
> Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 05:45:05 +0000
> From: Annaert Jan <jan.annaert(a)ua.ac.be>
> Subject: Re: [Gretl-users] extracting month number
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> Very compact, as always. But it wouldn't work for a dataset with weekly or daily
frequency, would it?
> Jan Annaert
> UNIVERSITEITANTWERPEN | Faculty of Applied Economics (TEW) | Dept. Accounting &
Finance
> Room S.B.335 | Prinsstraat 13 | B-2000 Antwerp | Belgium
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>
> From: "Riccardo Lucchetti (Jack)"
<r.lucchetti@univpm.it<mailto:r.lucchetti@univpm.it>>
> Reply-To: "r.lucchetti@univpm.it<mailto:r.lucchetti@univpm.it>"
<r.lucchetti@univpm.it<mailto:r.lucchetti@univpm.it>>,
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> Date: zondag 16 september 2012 22:40
> To: "walt@dataanalyticscorp.com<mailto:walt@dataanalyticscorp.com>"
<walt@dataanalyticscorp.com<mailto:walt@dataanalyticscorp.com>>,
"gretl-users@lists.wfu.edu<mailto:gretl-users@lists.wfu.edu>"
<gretl-users@lists.wfu.edu<mailto:gretl-users@lists.wfu.edu>>
> Subject: Re: [Gretl-users] extracting month number
>
> On Sun, 16 Sep 2012, Data Analytics Corp. wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have a monthly time series of the Dow Jones Industrial Index beginning
> 1928:10. I'd like to create a new variable that is just the month
> number: 10, 11, 12, 1, 2, 3,.... How can I do this? I thought there
> would be a month function in Gretl, but I don't see one. This question,
> of course, extends to the year (1928, 1928, 1929, 1929,...) and quarter
> if I have quarterly data.
>
> Does this help?
>
> <hansl>
> open bjg.gdt
> series year = 1949 + floor((t-1)/12)
> series month = 1 + ((t-1)%12)
> </hansl>
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti
> Dipartimento di Economia
>
> Universit? Politecnica delle Marche
> (formerly known as Universit? di Ancona)
>
> r.lucchetti@univpm.it<mailto:r.lucchetti@univpm.it>
> http://www2.econ.univpm.it/servizi/hpp/lucchetti
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>