bounds — setting estimation bounds
[]=bounds(b1,b2, , b2n-1,b2n)
a series of dates strings
Nothing: the bounds are transferred to the upper level in a (p x 1) vector by the argument resume
1) bounds('1964q3','1989q2') 2) bounds('1990f52p1','1999f52d26') 3) bounds('1901a','1913a', '1919a','1939a', '1946a','2000a') In example 1 (taken from hendryericsson_d), bounds range from the first quarter of 1963 to the third quarter of 1989. In example 2, they range from the first week ('f52' indicates that the frequency is set to 52) of 1990 until the 26th week of 1999. In example 3, bounds cover all the 20th century years, the period of the first (years 1914 to 1918) and second (years 1940 to 1945) world wars being excluded.