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Hi,

So firstly, I am totally new to RATS, so bumbling along quite a bit, however I have managed to get rid of many SX 11 errors, but I have one now that refuses to go away and I have no idea what is wrong.

The file I am running is attached, and the data reads in successfully and is transformed successfully, but then I try to run a simple linear regression.
I have tried to do this both manually and using the wizard and if I run the regression I want to run of DLJAYC10 on a constant and SLJAYC10 then I get the message :
## SX11. Identifier SLJAYC10 is Not Recognizable. Incorrect Option Field or Parameter Order?
>>>># SLJAYC10<<<<

If I run it just on a constant I get the following:
## SX11. Identifier DLJAYC10 is Not Recognizable. Incorrect Option Field or Parameter Order?
>>>>LINREG DLJAYC10 <<<<

I have checked the forum, reference manual, user guide, enders manual and the introduction and am not seeing what is missing.

Many thanks for any help.

Regards
Siobhan

New to RATS, but you got some oldish-looking program code. SCRATCH + LABELS doesn't define names for the series that you can use for input, just for output. You could fix it with

LINREG %s("DLJAYC10") 1995:05:28 2014:07:06
# Constant %s("SLJAYC10")

which looks up the series by its label, but I better approach is to use %S and %L to manufacture series with the names that you want. Replace the SCRATCH and DO loops with:

dofor i = JAYC00 to JAYC25
set %s("L"+%l(i)) = log(i{0})
set %s("DL"+%l(i)) = log(i{0})-log(i{1})
end dofor i
*
dofor i = JAYC01 to JAYC25
set %s("SL"+%l(i)) = log(i{0})-log((i-1){0})
end dofor i

See page UG-20 in the version 8 User's Guide.