Using the codebook command to check, the Date variable is in daily format, need to convert
to monthly format
Use the format %tm Date command to convert from daily to monthly
(ˆα) and slope (βˆ) are 0.013 and 0.975
(ˆα) in this regression is –2.838 and the slope estimate (βˆ) is 1.002
t-Ratio:
Constant (α): 0.44 (small) → do not reject H0: α = 0.
Slope (β, rfutures): 146.54 (high) → reject H0: β = 0, β is different from 0.
P-value:
Constant: > 0.1 → not significant (even at 10%).
Slope: 0.000 → very significant (reject H0 at 1%).
Conclusion: Slope (β) is important, constant (α) does not matter much!
Result: F(1,244) = 14.03, p = 0.0002 < 0.05 → reject H0 (β ≠ 1) at 5%.
F-statistic of 2.58 and a corresponding p-value of 0.1092, we find that the null hypothesis is
not rejected at the 5% significance level.