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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] 0.004165985 0.001521779  0.00301457  0.006251466
#> 
#> $AFG$Sigma$equation2
#>                    mean          sd 5% quantile 95% quantile
#> Sigma[2,1] -0.006870983 0.007407012 -0.01553523  0.001614024
#> Sigma[2,2]  0.175129026 0.039153246  0.14085484  0.220398129
#> 
#> $AFG$Sigma$equation3
#>                    mean         sd 5% quantile 95% quantile
#> Sigma[3,1]  0.005140897 0.01418828 -0.00992504   0.02267118
#> Sigma[3,2] -0.179522268 0.06703885 -0.26059903  -0.11161353
#> Sigma[3,3]  0.349560137 0.13374796  0.25065797   0.53152998
#> 
#> $AFG$Sigma$equation4
#>                    mean         sd 5% quantile 95% quantile
#> Sigma[4,1]  0.002497666 0.01229063  -0.0101249   0.01791467
#> Sigma[4,2] -0.117255159 0.06110713  -0.1933716  -0.05420140
#> Sigma[4,3]  0.310469775 0.12622096   0.2191267   0.48381632
#> Sigma[4,4]  0.298113787 0.12158535   0.2039651   0.46416310
#> 
#> 
#> $AFG$A
#> $AFG$A$equation1
#>                  mean         sd 5% quantile 95% quantile
#> lag1_var1  0.97517437 0.01645497  0.95769706   0.99543728
#> lag1_var2  0.23587634 0.02905665  0.20109970   0.26735648
#> lag1_var3  0.52476016 0.04740524  0.48216691   0.58715696
#> lag1_var4 -0.45447748 0.04201888 -0.51157802  -0.42385124
#> const     -2.56698553 0.58714560 -3.00598994  -1.76236580
#> exo1      -0.02108678 0.08366432 -0.11462814   0.07463796
#> exo2       0.02532059 0.09606667 -0.06981904   0.14806604
#> exo3      -0.13823158 0.06645618 -0.20008903  -0.05288464
#> 
#> $AFG$A$equation2
#>                  mean        sd 5% quantile 95% quantile
#> lag1_var1  0.22327205 0.1453536  0.02534777    0.3298866
#> lag1_var2  0.97585093 0.1134123  0.88378133    1.1282333
#> lag1_var3 -0.17536758 0.3436312 -0.58556551    0.2148116
#> lag1_var4  0.17363627 0.3003687 -0.16188937    0.5356139
#> const     -5.38671339 4.8837811 -9.41662009    1.0309400
#> exo1      -0.05982642 0.2238348 -0.30851228    0.1713302
#> exo2      -0.01344292 0.2955067 -0.39193215    0.1993741
#> exo3       0.03636780 0.2845575 -0.30634464    0.3499901
#> 
#> $AFG$A$equation3
#>                  mean        sd 5% quantile 95% quantile
#> lag1_var1  0.02019793 0.1936595 -0.18424999    0.2481485
#> lag1_var2  0.10613414 0.1229965 -0.02150253    0.2597137
#> lag1_var3  2.07801105 0.3248554  1.67834688    2.4257936
#> lag1_var4 -1.09438620 0.2718475 -1.37910485   -0.7527267
#> const      3.45606664 5.2308416 -3.07984888    8.9894510
#> exo1      -0.18365519 0.1625827 -0.34637562    0.0244447
#> exo2      -1.01744993 0.5100154 -1.60350390   -0.4174861
#> exo3      -0.20976291 0.7036926 -0.83553664    0.6840774
#> 
#> $AFG$A$equation4
#>                 mean        sd 5% quantile 95% quantile
#> lag1_var1  0.1370478 0.1695139  -0.0518174    0.3054023
#> lag1_var2  0.6609616 0.1653147   0.4845240    0.8595273
#> lag1_var3  2.3183980 0.3369260   1.9018157    2.6173046
#> lag1_var4 -1.1724483 0.2851849  -1.4851767   -0.8350766
#> const     -6.5552292 4.8586251 -11.4825363   -0.6376168
#> exo1      -0.2513109 0.1858791  -0.4996814   -0.1132089
#> exo2      -1.0818601 0.5304091  -1.6349239   -0.4398510
#> exo3      -0.1080558 0.6577602  -0.7582407    0.7143796
#> 
#> 
#> 
#> $AGO
#> $AGO$Sigma
#> $AGO$Sigma$equation1
#>                   mean          sd 5% quantile 95% quantile
#> Sigma[1,1] 0.005747989 0.001103389 0.004891033  0.007234799
#> 
#> $AGO$Sigma$equation2
#>                   mean          sd 5% quantile 95% quantile
#> Sigma[2,1] -0.00800433 0.004313213 -0.01225860 -0.002890832
#> Sigma[2,2]  0.13627276 0.031425813  0.09456164  0.164986000
#> 
#> $AGO$Sigma$equation3
#>                    mean          sd  5% quantile 95% quantile
#> Sigma[3,1]  0.009570222 0.002623531  0.007087158   0.01248988
#> Sigma[3,2] -0.055976967 0.015377361 -0.075102972  -0.03963740
#> Sigma[3,3]  0.048180153 0.014557338  0.038888790   0.06829786
#> 
#> $AGO$Sigma$equation4
#>                   mean          sd   5% quantile 95% quantile
#> Sigma[4,1] 0.005136339 0.004132195 -1.617007e-05  0.009470927
#> Sigma[4,2] 0.055685105 0.015355683  3.618476e-02  0.070535596
#> Sigma[4,3] 0.008771183 0.009566652  3.057324e-04  0.020508270
#> Sigma[4,4] 0.063632791 0.011858545  5.003694e-02  0.077003510
#> 
#> 
#> $AGO$A
#> $AGO$A$equation1
#>                  mean         sd 5% quantile 95% quantile
#> lag1_var1  0.92685952 0.01515888  0.91381688   0.94672447
#> lag1_var2  0.44554886 0.01802861  0.43203344   0.46945056
#> lag1_var3  0.60822362 0.02150010  0.57975637   0.62780401
#> lag1_var4 -0.54208621 0.01551289 -0.55280157  -0.52092256
#> const     -2.88216995 0.91213875 -4.00340726  -2.04486030
#> exo1       0.07960004 0.08854784 -0.01419258   0.17614495
#> exo2      -0.04038635 0.09230235 -0.15712493   0.03123364
#> exo3      -0.11930050 0.02884893 -0.15800463  -0.09488096
#> 
#> $AGO$A$equation2
#>                  mean         sd 5% quantile 95% quantile
#> lag1_var1  0.12217314 0.10927766 -0.01768757    0.2322389
#> lag1_var2  0.53986947 0.09560795  0.45423520    0.6672663
#> lag1_var3 -0.63643506 0.12950251 -0.79720203   -0.5023292
#> lag1_var4  0.64928233 0.08176916  0.55108519    0.7176574
#> const     -4.55448814 3.96688985 -9.12320290   -0.2017646
#> exo1       0.02119811 0.37542695 -0.36523647    0.4910710
#> exo2       0.34490947 0.15656027  0.13359181    0.4772406
#> exo3      -0.55087890 0.21481483 -0.83284808   -0.3595610
#> 
#> $AGO$A$equation3
#>                  mean         sd 5% quantile 95% quantile
#> lag1_var1 -0.42807093 0.07781651  -0.4976253   -0.3255997
#> lag1_var2  0.69845377 0.05429670   0.6540250    0.7671550
#> lag1_var3  1.97013759 0.15993502   1.8116887    2.1453172
#> lag1_var4 -0.99135001 0.09710548  -1.0947158   -0.8867850
#> const     12.90176879 3.86586242   8.3292918   16.9076239
#> exo1       0.09162583 0.20030239  -0.1458738    0.2974025
#> exo2      -1.49241120 0.10798170  -1.6053980   -1.3757500
#> exo3       2.79126891 0.16306242   2.6229012    2.9838657
#> 
#> $AGO$A$equation4
#>                 mean         sd 5% quantile 95% quantile
#> lag1_var1 -0.4755518 0.09947211 -0.57218125   -0.3479138
#> lag1_var2  1.1880456 0.07841817  1.11288402    1.2848740
#> lag1_var3  1.5961309 0.12926144  1.47672435    1.7655954
#> lag1_var4 -0.4996283 0.06162402 -0.57287996   -0.4328348
#> const      4.8050968 4.05310879 -0.36379638    8.8119912
#> exo1       0.1218803 0.19386113 -0.09255926    0.2786414
#> exo2      -1.5259733 0.10254177 -1.63841569   -1.4222243
#> exo3       2.6861374 0.25083402  2.48319184    3.0252924
#> 
#> 
#> 
#> $ALB
#> $ALB$Sigma
#> $ALB$Sigma$equation1
#>                   mean           sd 5% quantile 95% quantile
#> Sigma[1,1] 0.003393878 0.0008732681 0.002648383  0.004533716
#> 
#> $ALB$Sigma$equation2
#>                   mean         sd 5% quantile 95% quantile
#> Sigma[2,1] -0.08623963 0.02173968   -0.108029   -0.0613061
#> Sigma[2,2]  8.07216839 1.01763386    6.833096    9.1592714
#> 
#> $ALB$Sigma$equation3
#>                  mean          sd 5% quantile 95% quantile
#> Sigma[3,1]  0.0531474 0.006080657  0.04641078   0.06048644
#> Sigma[3,2] -5.4825157 0.610336976 -6.11757433  -4.72070382
#> Sigma[3,3]  5.5110644 0.639777816  4.97403814   6.21133535
#> 
#> $ALB$Sigma$equation4
#>                    mean         sd 5% quantile 95% quantile
#> Sigma[4,1] -0.004254994 0.01158983 -0.01413193  0.009459027
#> Sigma[4,2] -0.118175120 0.55871058 -0.72319101  0.496282728
#> Sigma[4,3]  2.217874973 0.52623923  1.63721284  2.849981717
#> Sigma[4,4]  2.573489546 0.38025051  2.28617156  3.092346280
#> 
#> 
#> $ALB$A
#> $ALB$A$equation1
#>                  mean         sd 5% quantile 95% quantile
#> lag1_var1  1.02283746 0.04295441  0.97551468   1.06816523
#> lag1_var2  0.08214379 0.01703904  0.05976597   0.09665435
#> lag1_var3  0.11190666 0.03241815  0.06957629   0.13925431
#> lag1_var4 -0.09085549 0.02783729 -0.11499742  -0.05537939
#> const     -1.97548197 0.82936367 -2.66062710  -1.05539342
#> exo1       0.02778103 0.06596630 -0.04636209   0.09407699
#> exo2       0.01636125 0.05979535 -0.03363601   0.08641928
#> exo3       0.12253425 0.06223069  0.05635526   0.19936784
#> 
#> $ALB$A$equation2
#>                mean        sd 5% quantile 95% quantile
#> lag1_var1 -3.539254  2.122386  -5.7092895   -0.8592443
#> lag1_var2  2.315190  1.021435   1.0879320    3.4633654
#> lag1_var3  3.324156  1.813084   0.9799505    4.9833107
#> lag1_var4 -2.720080  1.492535  -3.9584709   -0.7461586
#> const     55.530576 51.163188  -6.0665645  105.6200234
#> exo1      -1.099935  3.796912  -5.3783855    3.3824934
#> exo2      -3.894675  3.088067  -7.8124546   -1.1350540
#> exo3      -1.108312  1.471794  -2.8232231    0.5105913
#> 
#> $ALB$A$equation3
#>                 mean        sd 5% quantile 95% quantile
#> lag1_var1  1.4817353  2.113339  -0.9462038    3.9501501
#> lag1_var2 -0.8433592  1.476036  -2.6058735    0.7959519
#> lag1_var3 -0.9559098  2.603973  -4.0961601    1.9220103
#> lag1_var4  1.4544666  2.225692  -0.9231876    4.1915722
#> const     -9.1624296 50.610277 -67.3841378   44.5202560
#> exo1      -0.8924143  4.301790  -5.6581021    4.1282983
#> exo2       1.9651914  1.192761   0.5260119    3.1039740
#> exo3       0.6388307  1.823630  -1.3168016    2.6862725
#> 
#> $ALB$A$equation4
#>                  mean         sd 5% quantile 95% quantile
#> lag1_var1 -1.03616084  0.9543998   -1.792263    0.2379283
#> lag1_var2  0.51599301  1.5719899   -1.549872    1.8310190
#> lag1_var3  1.05642310  2.4575295   -2.166751    3.1799216
#> lag1_var4 -0.04338666  2.0753758   -1.847363    2.6915730
#> const     24.73222851 27.7808800   -4.302225   57.5019964
#> exo1      -1.41705493  2.9854640   -5.106633    1.3129024
#> exo2      -0.60871677  1.9991217   -2.598299    1.9072449
#> exo3      -0.13908807  1.7903581   -2.416433    1.6848763
#> 
#> 
#> 
#> $ARE
#> $ARE$Sigma
#> $ARE$Sigma$equation1
#>                  mean           sd 5% quantile 95% quantile
#> Sigma[1,1] 0.00149924 0.0003369432 0.001248735  0.001961696
#> 
#> $ARE$Sigma$equation2
#>                    mean          sd  5% quantile 95% quantile
#> Sigma[2,1] -0.003043555 0.001787518 -0.005494834 -0.001816384
#> Sigma[2,2]  0.051335994 0.016405097  0.037660105  0.073509543
#> 
#> $ARE$Sigma$equation3
#>                    mean          sd 5% quantile 95% quantile
#> Sigma[3,1]  0.003958601 0.002575259  0.00066674  0.006283974
#> Sigma[3,2] -0.056392837 0.020529131 -0.08348685 -0.040064612
#> Sigma[3,3]  0.185631000 0.028211098  0.15854127  0.221903966
#> 
#> $ARE$Sigma$equation4
#>                    mean          sd   5% quantile 95% quantile
#> Sigma[4,1]  0.001847605 0.002053358 -0.0006115494  0.004084204
#> Sigma[4,2] -0.016613310 0.016090071 -0.0338336800  0.002290178
#> Sigma[4,3]  0.144473411 0.029159615  0.1103227722  0.178071965
#> Sigma[4,4]  0.134909174 0.030094453  0.0938241545  0.158194877
#> 
#> 
#> $ARE$A
#> $ARE$A$equation1
#>                  mean         sd 5% quantile 95% quantile
#> lag1_var1  0.96915717 0.02415505  0.94769886  1.001082998
#> lag1_var2  0.45663866 0.02205954  0.44537375  0.486494862
#> lag1_var3  0.57560417 0.02942343  0.54967710  0.613711258
#> lag1_var4 -0.55880976 0.02506345 -0.58877192 -0.532817370
#> const     -0.46777319 0.33032813 -0.81335570 -0.056118256
#> exo1      -0.03459413 0.03061544 -0.06985780 -0.004433357
#> exo2      -0.05491785 0.02620754 -0.08704169 -0.027031910
#> exo3       0.01168346 0.06171524 -0.05716099  0.083764575
#> 
#> $ARE$A$equation2
#>                 mean        sd 5% quantile 95% quantile
#> lag1_var1  0.2791800 0.2056627  0.07095729    0.5409316
#> lag1_var2  0.2913234 0.2306991 -0.02087749    0.4154329
#> lag1_var3 -0.5046650 0.2287685 -0.81566887   -0.3385062
#> lag1_var4  0.4173039 0.1747173  0.27864052    0.6535575
#> const      0.1204886 2.2556156 -1.60230922    3.2080164
#> exo1       0.1561615 0.1450500 -0.01624955    0.2813707
#> exo2       1.9627862 0.3826820  1.49506302    2.3528393
#> exo3      -0.5318237 0.2417533 -0.78485643   -0.2479276
#> 
#> $ARE$A$equation3
#>                 mean         sd 5% quantile 95% quantile
#> lag1_var1 -0.3309774 0.33920684  -0.6195122   0.06197877
#> lag1_var2  0.6859116 0.11475681   0.5514521   0.79387810
#> lag1_var3  1.3786660 0.07328909   1.3149197   1.47378187
#> lag1_var4 -0.2999733 0.20913473  -0.5570067  -0.11921871
#> const      1.9287441 2.12990419  -0.4858538   4.38917216
#> exo1      -0.6338064 0.52948933  -1.3395448  -0.17645052
#> exo2      -2.4269099 0.43584458  -2.7393418  -1.83429269
#> exo3      -1.3987429 0.75345445  -2.1986550  -0.61549404
#> 
#> $ARE$A$equation4
#>                  mean        sd 5% quantile 95% quantile
#> lag1_var1 -0.14606793 0.2321325  -0.3631425    0.1154335
#> lag1_var2  0.92620196 0.1523036   0.7354004    1.0784392
#> lag1_var3  1.00854268 0.2312126   0.6963691    1.1856110
#> lag1_var4  0.03586789 0.2893653  -0.2356180    0.3977172
#> const      0.27998937 1.4188005  -1.5059113    1.6743525
#> exo1      -0.53282573 0.4753650  -1.1611307   -0.1317516
#> exo2      -0.92547617 0.2536081  -1.2324381   -0.6535474
#> exo3      -1.86280565 0.6129865  -2.4988495   -1.2043667
#> 
#> 
#> 
#> $ARG
#> $ARG$Sigma
#> $ARG$Sigma$equation1
#>                   mean           sd 5% quantile 95% quantile
#> Sigma[1,1] 0.003375029 0.0004275961 0.002847797  0.003830718
#> 
#> $ARG$Sigma$equation2
#>                  mean         sd 5% quantile 95% quantile
#> Sigma[2,1] -0.0570603 0.01076633 -0.06966647  -0.04665538
#> Sigma[2,2]  2.8131993 0.10730440  2.69154167   2.93915372
#> 
#> $ARG$Sigma$equation3
#>                   mean        sd 5% quantile 95% quantile
#> Sigma[3,1]  0.04138456 0.0103703  0.02897704   0.05286408
#> Sigma[3,2] -2.06967455 0.1855000 -2.27436530  -1.84554111
#> Sigma[3,3]  1.78383052 0.1975900  1.55077102   2.01116167
#> 
#> $ARG$Sigma$equation4
#>                   mean          sd   5% quantile 95% quantile
#> Sigma[4,1]  0.00817119 0.006170875  0.0005919187   0.01393075
#> Sigma[4,2] -0.39070749 0.137530023 -0.5377118629  -0.22250269
#> Sigma[4,3]  0.57686195 0.103813035  0.4624752237   0.70016979
#> Sigma[4,4]  0.37663066 0.044636745  0.3378702282   0.43391649
#> 
#> 
#> $ARG$A
#> $ARG$A$equation1
#>                   mean         sd 5% quantile 95% quantile
#> lag1_var1  0.839173067 0.04005875  0.80631241   0.89334473
#> lag1_var2  0.582963567 0.03667662  0.53412851   0.61535960
#> lag1_var3  0.957823202 0.06593381  0.87122941   1.01841382
#> lag1_var4 -0.870191618 0.05598379 -0.92297963  -0.79718198
#> const     -0.972147650 1.57031794 -2.85272294   0.79940655
#> exo1       0.030726285 0.07171968 -0.04596661   0.11971043
#> exo2      -0.131279874 0.06863115 -0.22248781  -0.07109887
#> exo3      -0.006647491 0.05901768 -0.08669193   0.04067101
#> 
#> $ARG$A$equation2
#>                 mean         sd 5% quantile 95% quantile
#> lag1_var1 -1.7652349  0.9096865  -2.7305851   -0.7854987
#> lag1_var2 -0.6642820  0.8687201  -1.4510132    0.3225557
#> lag1_var3 -2.3017847  1.5096659  -3.7792493   -0.5748524
#> lag1_var4  2.6809908  1.5918813   0.9506815    4.2664307
#> const     27.0335834 27.3788623   0.8959503   61.4406643
#> exo1      -1.0113233  1.6876864  -3.0446526    0.8348340
#> exo2       3.5651944  3.7858191  -0.5105668    7.4936424
#> exo3      -0.7498964  2.5694671  -3.5350658    2.3968566
#> 
#> $ARG$A$equation3
#>                 mean         sd 5% quantile 95% quantile
#> lag1_var1  0.8789991  0.3688853   0.5545525    1.3553008
#> lag1_var2  0.9365838  0.5254340   0.3666884    1.4869320
#> lag1_var3  2.2702277  0.9382629   1.2169231    3.2996445
#> lag1_var4 -1.7124392  0.9657635  -2.8252870   -0.7413954
#> const      1.7856504 16.3654236 -17.2037733   19.9216984
#> exo1       0.1695233  1.3787616  -1.5307020    1.6648187
#> exo2      -6.3460404  2.8758802  -9.1661674   -3.2575784
#> exo3       3.5535378  1.5163831   2.0283086    5.2956390
#> 
#> $ARG$A$equation4
#>                 mean        sd 5% quantile 95% quantile
#> lag1_var1 -0.2639679 0.3419495  -0.6215429   0.14841408
#> lag1_var2  0.5601483 0.1970008   0.2905637   0.70139159
#> lag1_var3  0.9095583 0.3035248   0.4930075   1.12790451
#> lag1_var4 -0.0369990 0.3497420  -0.2840520   0.44264215
#> const     14.9666215 9.2116681   2.7301007  22.80533882
#> exo1      -0.5226451 0.5139457  -1.1869177  -0.02660268
#> exo2      -4.7121722 0.6724931  -5.3414715  -3.92250281
#> exo3       3.4229074 0.6214646   2.7243316   4.13429332
#> 
#> 
#>