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Provides posterior mean, standard deviations, as well as 5 and 95 percentiles of the parameters for all C countries.

Usage

# S3 method for class 'PosteriorBVARGROUPPANEL'
summary(object, ...)

Arguments

object

an object of class PosteriorBVARGROUPPANEL obtained using the estimate() function applied to Vector Autoregressions containing draws from the posterior distribution of the parameters.

...

additional arguments affecting the summary produced.

Value

A list reporting the posterior mean, standard deviations, as well as 5 and 95 percentiles of the country-specific parameters.

Author

Tomasz Woźniak wozniak.tom@pm.me

Examples

# specify the model
specification = specify_bvarGroupPANEL$new(
      data = ilo_dynamic_panel[1:5],
      exogenous = ilo_exogenous_variables[1:5],
      group_allocation = country_grouping_region[1:5]
)
#> Country groupings have been pre-specified and will not be estimated.
burn_in       = estimate(specification, 5)             # run the burn-in
#> **************************************************|
#>  bpvars: Forecasting with Bayesian Panel VARs     |
#> **************************************************|
#>  Progress of the MCMC simulation for 5 draws
#>     Every draw is saved via MCMC thinning
#>  Press Esc to interrupt the computations
#> **************************************************|
posterior     = estimate(burn_in, 5)                   # estimate the model
#> **************************************************|
#>  bpvars: Forecasting with Bayesian Panel VARs     |
#> **************************************************|
#>  Progress of the MCMC simulation for 5 draws
#>     Every draw is saved via MCMC thinning
#>  Press Esc to interrupt the computations
#> **************************************************|
summary(posterior)
#> $AFG
#> $AFG$Sigma
#> $AFG$Sigma$equation1
#>                   mean          sd 5% quantile 95% quantile
#> Sigma[1,1] 0.009502634 0.001940302 0.007117072   0.01099619
#> 
#> $AFG$Sigma$equation2
#>                  mean          sd   5% quantile 95% quantile
#> Sigma[2,1] 0.01101493 0.008591342 -5.935751e-05   0.01954183
#> Sigma[2,2] 0.27287835 0.040283313  2.202136e-01   0.30735955
#> 
#> $AFG$Sigma$equation3
#>                   mean          sd 5% quantile 95% quantile
#> Sigma[3,1] -0.01583334 0.008487118 -0.02434665 -0.005685754
#> Sigma[3,2] -0.23756745 0.053045704 -0.29045450 -0.170883890
#> Sigma[3,3]  0.35086394 0.076589995  0.29219968  0.450546520
#> 
#> $AFG$Sigma$equation4
#>                   mean          sd 5% quantile 95% quantile
#> Sigma[4,1] -0.01142031 0.005320035 -0.01709997 -0.005931156
#> Sigma[4,2] -0.12997574 0.054379096 -0.19503451 -0.076429724
#> Sigma[4,3]  0.27657027 0.065526293  0.22204889  0.360410992
#> Sigma[4,4]  0.24806190 0.051532748  0.19150928  0.307772067
#> 
#> 
#> $AFG$A
#> $AFG$A$equation1
#>                   mean         sd  5% quantile 95% quantile
#> lag1_var1   0.96279753 0.01046948   0.95071628   0.97500571
#> lag1_var2   0.91062886 0.05044701   0.85528040   0.95064642
#> lag1_var3   2.04101445 0.09375226   1.93681356   2.12274118
#> lag1_var4  -1.78671516 0.06927680  -1.84702395  -1.70819858
#> const     -10.61228958 1.32906514 -11.85156958  -9.14546372
#> exo1       -0.01432777 0.06164281  -0.07684334   0.05701614
#> exo2        0.14430145 0.08741994   0.04344400   0.22118781
#> exo3        0.00948935 0.07976021  -0.08768625   0.09641260
#> 
#> $AFG$A$equation2
#>                  mean         sd   5% quantile 95% quantile
#> lag1_var1   0.1304221 0.09259331   0.010324301   0.21446850
#> lag1_var2   2.4662992 0.44872880   1.991978641   3.00416761
#> lag1_var3   3.3836080 0.76784607   2.599614463   4.27330420
#> lag1_var4  -2.9801499 0.60025434  -3.676313752  -2.36733922
#> const     -20.7264692 8.02093872 -30.251744525 -12.91208344
#> exo1       -0.1717045 0.29434507  -0.556929137   0.09477648
#> exo2        0.8394822 0.67147554   0.013962963   1.45910885
#> exo3        0.5668895 0.45871896  -0.003357179   1.04180716
#> 
#> $AFG$A$equation3
#>                  mean        sd 5% quantile 95% quantile
#> lag1_var1  0.03229964 0.2158195  -0.2202531   0.27773740
#> lag1_var2  0.15267692 0.5325995  -0.3531481   0.73246744
#> lag1_var3  1.72557756 0.9085903   0.8244425   2.72234185
#> lag1_var4 -0.68862200 0.7216258  -1.4857889   0.08139149
#> const     -1.18037115 8.9373665 -12.1449912   7.36781201
#> exo1       0.33652434 0.6121472  -0.4767613   0.89377924
#> exo2      -1.75838638 0.5146813  -2.0835848  -1.04615557
#> exo3      -0.25285401 0.4273506  -0.8046983   0.16558309
#> 
#> $AFG$A$equation4
#>                  mean        sd 5% quantile 95% quantile
#> lag1_var1   0.1027466 0.2277364  -0.1715649    0.3256779
#> lag1_var2   1.5447330 0.4172267   1.1756807    1.9970263
#> lag1_var3   3.8772697 0.7119006   3.1603025    4.6672630
#> lag1_var4  -2.4438190 0.5743700  -3.0835823   -1.8070950
#> const     -20.6081415 7.0419228 -29.8178549  -14.5102670
#> exo1        0.3253432 0.6131855  -0.4688544    0.9241052
#> exo2       -1.4723117 0.3163068  -1.6786599   -1.0366257
#> exo3        0.1134872 0.3346732  -0.3107393    0.4220095
#> 
#> 
#> 
#> $AGO
#> $AGO$Sigma
#> $AGO$Sigma$equation1
#>                  mean         sd 5% quantile 95% quantile
#> Sigma[1,1] 0.01125621 0.00486945 0.005209063   0.01634618
#> 
#> $AGO$Sigma$equation2
#>                   mean          sd 5% quantile 95% quantile
#> Sigma[2,1] -0.01187538 0.007543738 -0.01839377 -0.001762754
#> Sigma[2,2]  0.14313224 0.027491112  0.11690596  0.177419690
#> 
#> $AGO$Sigma$equation3
#>                   mean          sd  5% quantile 95% quantile
#> Sigma[3,1]  0.01011076 0.003311485  0.006559414   0.01399438
#> Sigma[3,2] -0.06077676 0.013288006 -0.072313289  -0.04464935
#> Sigma[3,3]  0.04426242 0.011335264  0.033084673   0.05886563
#> 
#> $AGO$Sigma$equation4
#>                     mean          sd  5% quantile 95% quantile
#> Sigma[4,1]  0.0007351237 0.003435192 -0.001876975  0.005362656
#> Sigma[4,2]  0.0571053640 0.016216900  0.043809761  0.078723657
#> Sigma[4,3] -0.0017989709 0.009960426 -0.014644873  0.007697272
#> Sigma[4,4]  0.0510118490 0.008923060  0.039488488  0.059432655
#> 
#> 
#> $AGO$A
#> $AGO$A$equation1
#>                  mean         sd 5% quantile 95% quantile
#> lag1_var1  0.99185031 0.04675597  0.95619463   1.05388207
#> lag1_var2 -0.63164159 0.46524618 -1.03457882  -0.02037528
#> lag1_var3 -0.80399104 0.62968550 -1.38765896   0.01506843
#> lag1_var4  0.70626088 0.54354056 -0.00915419   1.17962876
#> const      7.96900418 5.65766005  1.07559203  14.19357825
#> exo1       0.09344614 0.04107305  0.04369429   0.13907751
#> exo2      -0.01851830 0.18882297 -0.14531708   0.24076550
#> exo3       0.09877254 0.19867986 -0.05638883   0.33033759
#> 
#> $AGO$A$equation2
#>                  mean         sd  5% quantile 95% quantile
#> lag1_var1  0.05193925  0.1019838  -0.01830807    0.1889341
#> lag1_var2  0.30249094  0.7595623  -0.31321193    1.3098018
#> lag1_var3 -0.96924923  1.0710401  -1.90478120    0.4474186
#> lag1_var4  0.90595468  0.9096673  -0.27254666    1.6702056
#> const      2.71803614 14.1900802 -16.08218906   15.1007480
#> exo1      -0.05812117  0.3175870  -0.40222505    0.3043785
#> exo2       0.29568018  0.1896182   0.08665704    0.5161535
#> exo3      -0.68992983  0.5324907  -1.31467008   -0.1041209
#> 
#> $AGO$A$equation3
#>                 mean         sd 5% quantile 95% quantile
#> lag1_var1 -0.2360788 0.06958963  -0.3279425   -0.1739365
#> lag1_var2  0.1208105 0.42894289  -0.4408920    0.4982178
#> lag1_var3  1.1849798 0.53376645   0.4988266    1.6998694
#> lag1_var4 -0.2319771 0.51415879  -0.6950886    0.4388900
#> const      9.7389367 1.44042419   8.0310544   11.3428393
#> exo1       0.1621091 0.27603693  -0.2114432    0.3841067
#> exo2      -1.4758992 0.18472659  -1.6983283   -1.2771625
#> exo3       3.1155796 0.22304048   2.9186545    3.4098276
#> 
#> $AGO$A$equation4
#>                 mean          sd 5% quantile 95% quantile
#> lag1_var1 -0.2729807  0.04366055  -0.3239848   -0.2342659
#> lag1_var2  0.2950016  0.40702620  -0.2141486    0.7247396
#> lag1_var3  0.3668135  0.59152805  -0.2978498    1.0606269
#> lag1_var4  0.6433759  0.43752007   0.1606140    1.1667276
#> const      5.6035030 12.63846279 -10.6431552   17.3330224
#> exo1       0.1559504  0.18036368  -0.0304303    0.3834766
#> exo2      -1.5517582  0.10729674  -1.6693633   -1.4555054
#> exo3       2.9673328  0.38377893   2.4967085    3.3589171
#> 
#> 
#> 
#> $ALB
#> $ALB$Sigma
#> $ALB$Sigma$equation1
#>                  mean         sd 5% quantile 95% quantile
#> Sigma[1,1] 0.03065685 0.03476826 0.004326993   0.07779311
#> 
#> $ALB$Sigma$equation2
#>                  mean       sd 5% quantile 95% quantile
#> Sigma[2,1] -0.2795554 0.274399  -0.6554093   -0.1075549
#> Sigma[2,2]  9.5207128 2.047606   7.2482113   11.6695978
#> 
#> $ALB$Sigma$equation3
#>                  mean        sd 5% quantile 95% quantile
#> Sigma[3,1]  0.2878503 0.2710994  0.07237293    0.6519986
#> Sigma[3,2] -6.6392567 1.9170270 -8.87066642   -4.4136584
#> Sigma[3,3]  7.2686364 2.8198600  5.04308463   10.5613731
#> 
#> $ALB$Sigma$equation4
#>                  mean       sd 5% quantile 95% quantile
#> Sigma[4,1]  0.1267123 0.154125 -0.02155035     0.294397
#> Sigma[4,2] -0.3380297 1.687650 -2.16393548     1.383803
#> Sigma[4,3]  3.4452882 2.436384  1.02062406     6.514206
#> Sigma[4,4]  3.9339389 1.772892  2.31407337     6.250271
#> 
#> 
#> $ALB$A
#> $ALB$A$equation1
#>                  mean         sd 5% quantile 95% quantile
#> lag1_var1  0.61713501  0.3352068  0.20433303   0.94809013
#> lag1_var2 -0.09246465  0.1355782 -0.26411944   0.03482410
#> lag1_var3 -0.14164374  0.2105149 -0.40526574   0.05355908
#> lag1_var4  0.09115553  0.1649119 -0.04747043   0.30740758
#> const     11.90894388 10.2219594  1.05262325  22.63675122
#> exo1      -0.07197219  0.2164545 -0.36256584   0.10282568
#> exo2       0.17108164  0.2195861 -0.05844476   0.44544006
#> exo3       0.09716390  0.1840233 -0.11842349   0.28495857
#> 
#> $ALB$A$equation2
#>                  mean        sd 5% quantile 95% quantile
#> lag1_var1  -1.3758670  1.793275   -3.779654    0.1686219
#> lag1_var2   3.7016271  1.112451    2.527317    5.0319539
#> lag1_var3   5.2724565  1.831252    3.248265    7.3786079
#> lag1_var4  -4.1891753  1.342156   -5.829313   -2.8126124
#> const     -25.8124852 56.459844  -88.905663   35.6767637
#> exo1       -2.5941224  3.086623   -5.442928    1.1698144
#> exo2       -2.6924359  2.871785   -4.973380    1.1430980
#> exo3        0.8612671  2.578062   -2.206380    3.2077019
#> 
#> $ALB$A$equation3
#>                 mean         sd 5% quantile 95% quantile
#> lag1_var1  0.2554446   2.301214   -2.163078    2.6266541
#> lag1_var2 -3.4174437   3.080122   -6.957422   -0.1265528
#> lag1_var3 -4.8638673   4.722973  -10.224161    0.1825289
#> lag1_var4  4.5753285   3.671664    0.700585    8.8547351
#> const     69.6394493 116.629216  -58.716232  180.0423696
#> exo1      -0.1537518   3.316745   -3.940255    3.2198757
#> exo2      -0.9011716   1.923363   -3.367985    0.8458472
#> exo3      -0.9503421   3.159601   -5.035388    2.1708270
#> 
#> $ALB$A$equation4
#>                 mean         sd 5% quantile 95% quantile
#> lag1_var1 -0.8010777   3.007918   -3.626165    2.6167067
#> lag1_var2 -1.5631845   3.050938   -4.855481    1.8933446
#> lag1_var3 -2.2302462   4.538860   -7.141377    2.8548938
#> lag1_var4  2.6515692   3.604668   -1.333129    6.5945725
#> const     56.6673895 127.138038  -93.562896  172.3327048
#> exo1      -1.8164290   1.995724   -3.588616    0.6294408
#> exo2      -3.1035648   1.830821   -5.263660   -1.0459521
#> exo3      -0.3808116   2.639269   -3.772092    2.2207023
#> 
#> 
#> 
#> $ARE
#> $ARE$Sigma
#> $ARE$Sigma$equation1
#>                   mean           sd 5% quantile 95% quantile
#> Sigma[1,1] 0.002779004 0.0006198993 0.002057706  0.003502107
#> 
#> $ARE$Sigma$equation2
#>                    mean          sd  5% quantile  95% quantile
#> Sigma[2,1] -0.001942321 0.001322908 -0.003552403 -0.0004976356
#> Sigma[2,2]  0.056722193 0.014235736  0.041360416  0.0740867547
#> 
#> $ARE$Sigma$equation3
#>                    mean          sd  5% quantile 95% quantile
#> Sigma[3,1]  0.006715474 0.006219785 -0.001468457   0.01243976
#> Sigma[3,2] -0.058585901 0.015941402 -0.076388501  -0.03968657
#> Sigma[3,3]  0.187385037 0.036603200  0.144389217   0.22400635
#> 
#> $ARE$Sigma$equation4
#>                    mean          sd  5% quantile 95% quantile
#> Sigma[4,1]  0.005597788 0.005776060 -0.001733433  0.011307543
#> Sigma[4,2] -0.015825992 0.008467565 -0.026689030 -0.007846292
#> Sigma[4,3]  0.145929973 0.025957738  0.116203398  0.174751739
#> Sigma[4,4]  0.137307623 0.020362924  0.112914570  0.158316130
#> 
#> 
#> $ARE$A
#> $ARE$A$equation1
#>                  mean         sd 5% quantile 95% quantile
#> lag1_var1  0.83827935 0.04468873  0.77730891   0.87025727
#> lag1_var2  1.68910734 0.05552998  1.61439990   1.73276448
#> lag1_var3  2.14805233 0.08895884  2.02550073   2.20627484
#> lag1_var4 -2.06627987 0.09804882 -2.13087729  -1.93086769
#> const     -2.08132847 0.54763565 -2.57435769  -1.36194185
#> exo1      -0.01185301 0.08784006 -0.10936215   0.09002755
#> exo2      -0.08671298 0.06125573 -0.16717511  -0.03513127
#> exo3       0.03039258 0.05862066 -0.04792583   0.07680662
#> 
#> $ARE$A$equation2
#>                  mean        sd 5% quantile 95% quantile
#> lag1_var1  0.07654461 0.0840527   0.0134107    0.1894488
#> lag1_var2  1.40534320 0.1633974   1.2649227    1.6208025
#> lag1_var3  0.88969139 0.1771985   0.7336070    1.1268119
#> lag1_var4 -0.89105016 0.2089089  -1.1732343   -0.7175742
#> const     -1.24255783 0.4787269  -1.7040533   -0.6362455
#> exo1      -0.10649054 0.3551720  -0.5006781    0.2554741
#> exo2       1.81662855 0.1275253   1.6601321    1.9563750
#> exo3      -0.73921196 0.2349308  -0.9804915   -0.4521204
#> 
#> $ARE$A$equation3
#>                 mean        sd 5% quantile 95% quantile
#> lag1_var1  0.2306511 0.3022051 -0.03921935  0.630383808
#> lag1_var2  0.4271432 0.4411970  0.01397948  1.002144055
#> lag1_var3  1.2734812 0.5789545  0.71898242  1.989538018
#> lag1_var4 -0.3133812 0.6296002 -1.09062145  0.297567787
#> const     -3.3716880 4.4500164 -8.65599893  1.399382488
#> exo1      -0.4756346 0.4338451 -0.92704342  0.004635628
#> exo2      -2.2898079 0.3885823 -2.74207893 -1.859657321
#> exo3      -0.7931013 0.4044923 -1.20586350 -0.290016899
#> 
#> $ARE$A$equation4
#>                 mean        sd  5% quantile 95% quantile
#> lag1_var1  0.2854737 0.3068198   0.01498474    0.6950644
#> lag1_var2  1.5163795 0.3766015   1.23163224    2.0263435
#> lag1_var3  1.9731759 0.5346868   1.43297346    2.6555352
#> lag1_var4 -0.9870675 0.5793827  -1.72249484   -0.3881184
#> const     -6.2870905 4.7143640 -12.17234704   -1.4493411
#> exo1      -0.5673155 0.1957752  -0.78454928   -0.3826680
#> exo2      -0.8655165 0.3490010  -1.28788996   -0.4851522
#> exo3      -1.3919082 0.5100356  -1.94230709   -0.7767119
#> 
#> 
#> 
#> $ARG
#> $ARG$Sigma
#> $ARG$Sigma$equation1
#>                  mean          sd 5% quantile 95% quantile
#> Sigma[1,1] 0.00531241 0.001644916 0.003278154  0.007074477
#> 
#> $ARG$Sigma$equation2
#>                   mean         sd 5% quantile 95% quantile
#> Sigma[2,1] -0.05999047 0.01675265 -0.07815953  -0.04049199
#> Sigma[2,2]  2.82727467 0.73675497  1.90079718   3.58831246
#> 
#> $ARG$Sigma$equation3
#>                   mean          sd 5% quantile 95% quantile
#> Sigma[3,1]  0.04458501 0.009658016  0.03269836   0.05491033
#> Sigma[3,2] -2.03323460 0.639270321 -2.70818471  -1.23317196
#> Sigma[3,3]  1.66746305 0.543761102  1.05309049   2.31886504
#> 
#> $ARG$Sigma$equation4
#>                    mean          sd  5% quantile 95% quantile
#> Sigma[4,1]  0.009885488 0.005630307  0.002373489   0.01465929
#> Sigma[4,2] -0.345557831 0.225416674 -0.600617830  -0.08680923
#> Sigma[4,3]  0.478637947 0.200936391  0.340032696   0.75089919
#> Sigma[4,4]  0.301553037 0.116637761  0.195087020   0.45324192
#> 
#> 
#> $ARG$A
#> $ARG$A$equation1
#>                 mean         sd 5% quantile 95% quantile
#> lag1_var1  0.7824907 0.11112842  0.66835363   0.90406062
#> lag1_var2  0.9517627 0.30620994  0.53293421   1.18044478
#> lag1_var3  1.5582475 0.50683904  0.86569494   1.93805834
#> lag1_var4 -1.4244005 0.44439502 -1.75303114  -0.81664094
#> const     -2.2771189 2.09372479 -4.28698159   0.29063959
#> exo1       0.0200910 0.04036533 -0.02607238   0.06226145
#> exo2      -0.1497222 0.09133935 -0.23853697  -0.03091352
#> exo3      -0.1305218 0.04541921 -0.18822144  -0.08740952
#> 
#> $ARG$A$equation2
#>                   mean        sd 5% quantile 95% quantile
#> lag1_var1  -1.79831647  1.403374  -3.3555428    -0.270364
#> lag1_var2  -6.44108366  3.172235 -10.2358835    -3.500465
#> lag1_var3 -11.76518376  5.086016 -17.7390181    -6.989820
#> lag1_var4  10.98069310  4.879684   6.5739049    16.913886
#> const      98.84324353 57.220332  34.9138282   167.135187
#> exo1       -1.61162207  2.525738  -4.6967070     1.171261
#> exo2        1.86699670  1.801971  -0.5042116     3.504561
#> exo3        0.05907522  3.275859  -2.6203369     4.235715
#> 
#> $ARG$A$equation3
#>                  mean        sd  5% quantile 95% quantile
#> lag1_var1   0.7069014  1.059720   -0.3823771     1.947940
#> lag1_var2   6.0076540  1.683112    4.2989345     7.789107
#> lag1_var3  10.5788312  2.699240    7.8121040    13.328217
#> lag1_var4  -9.0414294  2.625395  -11.9585472    -6.384818
#> const     -53.3083264 39.445444 -101.2589390   -13.593958
#> exo1        0.4276729  1.506908   -1.0230994     2.369752
#> exo2       -5.3706173  1.510654   -6.6864599    -3.350055
#> exo3        2.8809407  2.404864   -0.1039840     5.021091
#> 
#> $ARG$A$equation4
#>                 mean         sd 5% quantile 95% quantile
#> lag1_var1 -0.4387222  0.3360492  -0.8745599   -0.1114854
#> lag1_var2  2.1993144  0.7800845   1.4647475    3.2175062
#> lag1_var3  3.5943994  1.2905569   2.3670534    5.2762833
#> lag1_var4 -2.4399532  1.0893952  -3.8668983   -1.4440563
#> const      2.4588587 13.5414871 -12.5948830   16.7197798
#> exo1      -0.6276450  0.3658962  -1.0230431   -0.2073332
#> exo2      -4.8059106  0.8813316  -5.7957075   -3.9527294
#> exo3       3.2257214  0.6635317   2.7062580    4.0440441
#> 
#> 
#>