Simple scatter plot 374, 400 Skewness 311

SMA specification 506 Smoothing

methods 351 parameters 351 Smpl command 98

Smpl+/- 91 Solve

Gauss-Seidel 959 Source

field in database query 284 Sparse label option 313, 382 Specification test

for binary models 637 for overdispersion 663 for tobit 652

RESET (Ramsey) 586 White 583

Specificity of binary prediction 630 Specify equation 444, 569

in systems 699 nonlinear 481 Spike graph 310

Spreadsheet

file export 115 file import 110 view option 942

SPSS file 54 Stability test 584

Chow breakpoint 584 Chow forecast 585 RESET 586

with unequal variance 593 Stacked data 833

balanced 835 descriptive statistics 840 order 834

Standard deviation 311 Standard error

for estimated coefficient 450 forecast 552, 564

of the regression 452 Standard error

See also Robust standard errors. 450 Standardized residual 456

binary models 634

censored models 650 count models 663 truncated models 656

Start

field in database query 283 Starting values

(G)ARCH models 606 binary models 627

for ARMA estimation 509 for coefficients 483

for nonlinear least squares 482 for systems 703

param statement 483, 952 user supplied 510

Starting values for coefficients 951 Stata file 54

State equation 754 State space 753

@mprior 763 @vprior 763 estimation 767

observation equation 754 representation 753

state equation 754 State variables 753 Static forecast 557

Stationary time series 517 Status line 24

Step size 959 Store 85

as .DB? file 267 from pool 844 in database 267

merge objects 268 Structural change 584 Structural forecast 557

Structural solution of models 809 Structural VAR 733

estimation 738 factorization matrix 727 identification 737 long-run restrictions 735 short-run restrictions 734

Sum of squared residuals for regression 452

Summary statistics

for regression variables 451