Thanks Arthur, how do I change the number of  non-convergent cases?  Or should I just code the bootstrap in hansel myself? 

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-------- Original message --------
From: "Artur T." <artur.tarassow@googlemail.com>
Date: 10/23/2013 12:48 PM (GMT-06:00)
To: Gretl list <gretl-users@lists.wfu.edu>
Subject: Re: [Gretl-users] Confidence bounds on IRF


@Sven: I think he speaks about the native irf() command.

I had a similar issue in the past. We discussed this a while ago. The problem may occur if your data show excessive collinearity, for instance. If this happens more than 10 times within the 999 bootstrap replications, gretl breaks the loop and gives this error messages.

First, I circumenvented this issue by increasing the number of possible unstable cases in the C-code, before I programmed it myself. Alternatively, one could increase the numbers of non-convergent cases to, let's say, 99 or so.

Artur



2013/10/23 Sven Schreiber <svetosch@gmx.net>
Am 23.10.2013 18:40, schrieb Logan Kelly:
> I am using the latest snapshot 64 bit version on Win8 64bit.
>
> I am having an issue the irf function. I get the err Matrix is not
> positive definite if I ask for bootstrapped confidence bounds,

Are you talking about the SVAR package here?

-s
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