On Wed, 7 Apr 2010, Henrique Andrade wrote:As matters stand, you have to formulate and run the ADF regression
> Is it possible to save the residuals of the Augmented
> Dickey-Fuller (ADF) test regressions? I would like to save them
> to check if they follow a white noise process.
yourself to get access to the residuals. This goes for all
auxiliary regressions run by gretl on behalf of diagnostic test
commands: they do not create "first-class" models from which you
could access $uhat, $ess and all the rest.
This seems OK to me: if you want to investigate "second-order"
aspects of the test that's fine, but you need to run the auxiliary
regression yourself. The built-in diagnostic commands are just
convenient short-cuts for procedures that are quite easily
scripted in gretl.
If the test shows that you have a unit root, by definition, the residuals doesn't follow a random walk (white nose) and vice-versa.But if you really want to see the residuals, just run an AR(p) regression, by OLS, where p is the "augmented lag" (w/o truncation), then save the residuals.