On Fri, 26 Oct 2012, Henrique Andrade wrote:

> I found another little strange behavior using PCA
> Function. Please take a look at the following Hansl
> code:
>
> <hansl>
> open australia.gdt
>
> loop i=1..30 --quiet
>    pca PAU PUS E --save[1]
> endloop
> </hansl>
>
> After 27 repetitions, the loop starts to save all the
> new series with the same name "PC1z".

Well, yes, gretl will only go so far in trying to give unique names 
to the components. For more control over the process, use the 
function form, princomp().

Allin Cottrell

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