GRAPH OF TWO DENSITIES TOGETHER: Thanks for providing the older link. 
Although the code there is to plot two densities /consecutively /from 
left to right, while what I need to do is to /superimpose/ them - and 
this I realize now has the problem of having two different abscissaes 
series. Still, I learned something new about handling plots in Gretl.

CONSTANT IN LOG-LIKELIHOOD
The basic code *without the constant in the log-l *is (omitting the 
initial part where OLS executes to obtain initial values)

<<
matrix Depv = {LWAGE}
matrix Regrs = {const,  EXP,   EXP2, WKS,  OCC,  IND,  SOUTH, SMSA,  
MS,  FEM,  UNION,   ED, BLK}
matrix cVec = {c0,c1,c2,c3,c4,c5,c6,c7,c8,c9,c10,c11,c12}'
scalar v0 = 1
scalar v1 = 1
scalar v2 = 1

mle logl = check ?   -ln(v) - 0.5*(e2hn/v)^2 + ln(cdf(D,l1/sqrt(1+l1^2), 
e2hn/omega1, 0) - cdf(D,-l2/sqrt(1+l2^2), e2hn/omega2, 0)):NA
     series e2hn = Depv - Regrs*cVec
scalar v = sqrt(v0^2 + v1^2 + v2^2)
scalar l1 = (v2/v1)*(v/v0)
scalar l2 = (v1/v2)*(v/v0)
scalar omega1 = (v*v0/v1)*sqrt(1+ (v2/v0)^2)
scalar omega2 = (v*v0/v2)*sqrt(1+ (v1/v0)^2)
scalar check = (v0>0) && (v1>0) && (v2>0)
params cVec  v0 v1 v2
end mle  --verbose
 >>

and  gives final results
<<
--- FINAL VALUES:
loglikelihood = -447.517658694 (steplength = 8.38861e-017)
Parameters:       5.6103    0.029306 -0.00048463   0.0036368 -0.16393    
0.083254
                -0.058693     0.16568    0.093867    -0.32751 0.10612    
0.056644
                 -0.18925     0.21983     0.26368     0.28759
Gradients:   7.1632e-005 -0.00019598   0.0051691 -0.00055942 5.6355e-005 
2.3537e-006
              4.7828e-005-7.9492e-006 2.2249e-005-2.2649e-006 
2.5091e-005 -0.00029823
              5.1958e-006 7.7593e-005 5.9452e-006-2.5091e-005 (norm 
5.45e-003)

Tolerance = 1.81899e-012

Function evaluations: 397
Evaluations of gradient: 72

Model 3: ML, using observations 1-595
logl = check ? -ln(v) - 0.5*(e2hn/v)^2 + ln(cdf(D,l1/sqrt(1+l1^2), 
e2hn/omega1, 0) - cdf(D,-l2/sqrt(1+l2^2), e2hn/omega2, 0)):NA
Standard errors based on Outer Products matrix

                estimate     std. error      z       p-value
   ----------------------------------------------------------
   cVec[1]     5.61026       0.189973      29.53    1.12e-191 ***
   cVec[2]     0.0293063     0.00650305     4.507   6.59e-06  ***
   cVec[3]    -0.000484630   0.000127917   -3.789   0.0002    ***
   cVec[4]     0.00363680    0.00253677     1.434   0.1517
   cVec[5]    -0.163931      0.0372662     -4.399   1.09e-05  ***
   cVec[6]     0.0832535     0.0305658      2.724   0.0065    ***
   cVec[7]    -0.0586933     0.0300906     -1.951   0.0511    *
   cVec[8]     0.165683      0.0296335      5.591   2.26e-08  ***
   cVec[9]     0.0938665     0.0469460      1.999   0.0456    **
   cVec[10]   -0.327510      0.0678567     -4.826   1.39e-06  ***
   cVec[11]    0.106121      0.0335694      3.161   0.0016    ***
   cVec[12]    0.0566442     0.00623447     9.086   1.03e-019 ***
   cVec[13]   -0.189253      0.0551030     -3.435   0.0006    ***
   v0          0.219829      0.0951096      2.311   0.0208    **
   v1          0.263683      0.111617       2.362   0.0182    **
   v2          0.287589      0.103953       2.767   0.0057    ***

Log-likelihood      -447.5177   Akaike criterion     927.0353
Schwarz criterion    997.2523   Hannan-Quinn         954.3796
 >>

----------------------------------------------------------

If  I specify
mle logl = check ? *ln(4/sqrt(2/$pi))* - ln(v)  etc
  I get
<<
--- FINAL VALUES:
loglikelihood = 511.673340992 (steplength = 1.6384e-010)
Parameters:       5.6103    0.029306 -0.00048463   0.0036368 -0.16393    
0.083254
                -0.058694     0.16568    0.093868    -0.32751 0.10612    
0.056644
                 -0.18925     0.21983     0.26368     0.28759
Gradients:   -0.00013035   0.0013600    0.052876  -0.0098550 6.4448e-005 
-0.00051251
               0.00057035-8.1379e-006 -0.00036188 -0.00042025 
0.00034582  -0.0013756
               0.00053909  -0.0013437  0.00054025 -0.00083513 (norm 
1.11e-002)

Tolerance = 1.81899e-012

Function evaluations: 493
Evaluations of gradient: 82

Model 3: ML, using observations 1-595
logl = check ? ln(4/sqrt(2/$pi)) -ln(v) - 0.5*(e2hn/v)^2 + 
ln(cdf(D,l1/sqrt(1+l1^2), e2hn/omega1, 0) - cdf(D,-l2/sqrt(1+l2^2), 
e2hn/omega2, 0)):NA
Standard errors based on Outer Products matrix

                estimate     std. error      z       p-value
   ----------------------------------------------------------
   cVec[1]     5.61027       0.189973      29.53    1.12e-191 ***
   cVec[2]     0.0293063     0.00650305     4.507   6.59e-06  ***
   cVec[3]    -0.000484629   0.000127917   -3.789   0.0002    ***
   cVec[4]     0.00363683    0.00253677     1.434   0.1517
   cVec[5]    -0.163931      0.0372663     -4.399   1.09e-05  ***
   cVec[6]     0.0832537     0.0305658      2.724   0.0065    ***
   cVec[7]    -0.0586936     0.0300906     -1.951   0.0511    *
   cVec[8]     0.165683      0.0296335      5.591   2.26e-08  ***
   cVec[9]     0.0938678     0.0469461      1.999   0.0456    **
   cVec[10]   -0.327508      0.0678569     -4.826   1.39e-06  ***
   cVec[11]    0.106121      0.0335695      3.161   0.0016    ***
   cVec[12]    0.0566442     0.00623448     9.086   1.03e-019 ***
   cVec[13]   -0.189254      0.0551031     -3.435   0.0006    ***
   v0          0.219833      0.0951107      2.311   0.0208    **
   v1          0.263678      0.111623       2.362   0.0182    **
   v2          0.287587      0.103956       2.766   0.0057    ***

Log-likelihood       511.6733   Akaike criterion    -991.3467
Schwarz criterion   -921.1297   Hannan-Quinn        -964.0024
 >>

*COMMENT: **all parameter estimates are very close but the value of the 
log-likelihood is positive.*

---------------------------------------------
If I specify  mle logl = check ? *0.467355827915218* - ln(v)  etc I get
<<
--- FINAL VALUES:
loglikelihood = -172.877055337 (steplength = 5.36871e-021)
Parameters:       5.7197    0.029288 -0.00048358   0.0037060 -0.17731    
0.065087
                -0.062683     0.16589    0.096647    -0.34367 
0.098338    0.054146
                 -0.18382 2.2828e-008     0.33034     0.42766
Gradients:       0.98941     -16.941      65.400      61.632 
-0.42174     0.31255
                -0.078953     0.32094   -0.099944   -0.028678 
1.6085      23.937
                  0.80591 6.6747e-005    0.045333   0.0018853 (norm 
7.16e-001)

Tolerance = 1.81899e-012

Function evaluations: 502
Evaluations of gradient: 79

Model 5: ML, using observations 1-595
logl = check ? 0.467355827915218 -ln(v) - 0.5*(e2hn/v)^2 + 
ln(cdf(D,l1/sqrt(1+l1^2), e2hn/omega1, 0) - cdf(D,-l2/sqrt(1+l2^2), 
e2hn/omega2, 0)):NA
Standard errors based on Outer Products matrix

                estimate        std. error         z       p-value
   ----------------------------------------------------------------
   cVec[1]     5.71974            0.179086      31.94     7.79e-224 ***
   cVec[2]     0.0292883          0.00593066     4.938    7.87e-07 ***
   cVec[3]    -0.000483577        0.000116778   -4.141    3.46e-05 ***
   cVec[4]     0.00370595         0.00245961     1.507    0.1319
   cVec[5]    -0.177311           0.0358279     -4.949    7.46e-07 ***
   cVec[6]     0.0650868          0.0284437      2.288    0.0221 **
   cVec[7]    -0.0626826          0.0289442     -2.166    0.0303 **
   cVec[8]     0.165888           0.0279917      5.926    3.10e-09 ***
   cVec[9]     0.0966475          0.0452880      2.134    0.0328 **
   cVec[10]   -0.343670           0.0618104     -5.560    2.70e-08 ***
   cVec[11]    0.0983375          0.0315998      3.112    0.0019 ***
   cVec[12]    0.0541457          0.00606580     8.926    4.40e-019 ***
   cVec[13]   -0.183823           0.0524279     -3.506    0.0005 ***
   v0          2.28282e-08   405491              0.0000   1.0000
   v1          0.330336           0.0328825     10.05     9.57e-024 ***
   v2          0.427663           0.0335927     12.73     3.98e-037 ***

Log-likelihood      -172.8771   Akaike criterion     377.7541
Schwarz criterion    447.9711   Hannan-Quinn         405.0984
 >>

*COMMENT: **slope coefficients are again comparable and the value of the 
likelihood is close to what it should have been if its constant term was 
added afterwards. But the estimates of the three variance terms v0 v1 v2 
are totally different, the one reaching the specified boundary of the 
parameter space (zero). *

Alecos Papadopoulos
Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece
Department of Economics
cell:+30-6945-378680
fax: +30-210-8259763
skype:alecos.papadopoulos

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>        (Allin Cottrell)
>     4. Re: retrieving F-stat and p-value from a VAR system
>        (Allin Cottrell)
>     5. Implement new criterion for var lag selection
>        (Gian Lorenzo Spisso)
>     6. Re: Implement new criterion for var lag selection
>        (Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti)
>     7. Re: Implement new criterion for var lag selection
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> Message: 1
> Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2013 01:44:11 +0300
> From: cociuba mihai <cociuba(a)gmail.com>
> Subject: [Gretl-users] retrieving F-stat and p-value from a VAR system
> To: gretl-users(a)lists.wfu.edu
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> Dear GRETL users,
> I'm testing Granger causality between inflation and inflation uncertainty
> for 15 countries and I would like to retrieve the result of the Wald test
> in a matrix, the script that I try to run gets stuck at the last step. Any
> suggestion are welcome.
>
> ###hansl###
> open Table_17.3.gdt
> var 10 M1 R --lagselect
> a=2
> b=3
> c=6
> d=8
> #number of rows 4, but the number of F statistics reported in the VAR
> output for #every equations is 3 so maybe I need more?
> scalar T = 4
> #generate the matrix with 4 rows and 2 colums
> matrix F_stat = zeros(T,2)
> #rename the colums
> # is it possible to have also the name of the F test?
> colnames(F_stat, "t-stat p-value")
>      loop foreach i a b c d
> var $i M1 R --nc
> F_stat[$i,] = $test ~ $pvalue
> endloop
> print F_stat
> ###end###
>
> Thanks, Mihai
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> Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2013 21:31:05 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Allin Cottrell <cottrell(a)wfu.edu>
> Subject: Re: [Gretl-users] Constant in log-likelihood and graph of two
>       densities together
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> On Mon, 8 Jul 2013, Alecos Papadopoulos wrote:
>
>> Good evening everybody. I am rather new to Gretl and my questions
>> are probably kindergarten-level, but I could not figure out the
>> answers myself or using Help. So here they are
>>
>> 1) I run maximum likelihood from the script window. I am trying
>> two different and non-nested stochastic specifications. I have to
>> compare and evaluate them by using the value of the maximized
>> log-likelihood. But since they are non-nested, their
>> log-likelihood functions are totally different. So, suddenly, the
>> constants of each log-likelihood, although they play no role in
>> the estimation of the parameters, influence the value of the
>> maximized logl - and they are different constants.
>>
>> If I don't include them in the logl function, then the values of
>> the maximized logl (and the AIC and BIC and HQ criteria) will be
>> misleading for comparison purposes of the two competing stochastic
>> specifications, and currently I am doing the corrections by hand
>> (which I can live with). But it would be nice not to have output
>> that needs such corrections. I tried to include them in the
>> specification of the logl after the "mle logl = " command. But
>> when I tried to include them as, say, "ln(4/sqrt(2/pi))" or
>> "ln(4/sqrt(2/%pi)) I get "syntax error on the command line".
> The recommended way of accessing pi = 3.14... in current gretl
> (version 1.9.12) is "$pi", though plain "pi" (deprecated since May
> 2012) will still work; "%pi" will definitely not work. The
> expression
>
> ln(4/sqrt(2/$pi))
>
> is correctly evaluated as 1.612... in current gretl.
>
>> When I calculate them explicitly, say 0.45678 and enter this
>> constant instead, Gretl runs, but the estimation goes astray, and
>> produces different results than when the constant is not included.
>> I suspect that this may have something to do with the fact that I
>> do not specify analytical derivatives, but I really don't know.
>> What am I doing wrong?
> The issue of analytical versus numerical derivatives wouldn't seem
> to be relevant to the inclusion or non-inclusion of a constant term
> (which obviously doesn't have a derivative) in the log-likelihood.
> I suppose something else must be wrong here. I think you'll have to
> show us your full script to get useful help.
>
>> 2) Again for comparison purposes, I would want to have in one graph the
>> estimated densities of two series. But when I select two series the
>> "Variable" menu becomes disabled, while in the "View" menu there are
>> various graph options, but not the option to graph the estimated
>> densities of the two series together. Is there a way around this?
> This question has come up before. Please see
> http://lists.wfu.edu/pipermail/gretl-users/2013-April/008745.html
>
> Allin Cottrell
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 3
> Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2013 21:59:16 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Allin Cottrell <cottrell(a)wfu.edu>
> Subject: Re: [Gretl-users] retrieving F-stat and p-value from a VAR
>       system
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> On Tue, 9 Jul 2013, cociuba mihai wrote:
>
>> I'm testing Granger causality between inflation and inflation
>> uncertainty for 15 countries and I would like to retrieve the
>> result of the Wald test...
> What Wald test? (That is, for what null hypothesis?)
>
>> in a matrix, the script that I try to run gets stuck at the last
>> step. Any suggestion are welcome.
> [last step]
>> loop foreach i a b c d
>>    var $i M1 R --nc
>>    F_stat[$i,] = $test ~ $pvalue
>> endloop
> The "var" command in gretl does not supply a $test accessor. In fact
> no model estimation command in gretl does that: the label "test" is
> much too general, given that many sorts of tests might be
> contemplated after estimating a given model (either single-equation
> or multi-equation).
>
> Since a VAR is just a collection of equations related in a certain
> way (identical right-hand sides, specific relation between left-hand
> side variables and right-hand sides), estimated in practice via OLS,
> you can get whatever Wald statistics you want by estimating the
> equations singly via the "ols" command, and using either "omit" or
> "restrict" (which do produce $test and $pvalue).
>
> (I suppose we could generalize the current scalar $Fstat accessor
> for single equation models to a matrix for VARs, but that would
> require some decisions on which F-stats to include and in what
> configuration.)
>
> Allin Cottrell
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 4
> Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2013 22:15:21 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Allin Cottrell <cottrell(a)wfu.edu>
> Subject: Re: [Gretl-users] retrieving F-stat and p-value from a VAR
>       system
> To: Gretl list <gretl-users(a)lists.wfu.edu>
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> On Mon, 8 Jul 2013, Allin Cottrell wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 9 Jul 2013, cociuba mihai wrote:
>>
>>> I'm testing Granger causality between inflation and inflation uncertainty
>>> for 15 countries and I would like to retrieve the result of the Wald
>>> test...
>> What Wald test? (That is, for what null hypothesis?)
> OK, in fact clear enough from context. Trivial example of what I
> described in my previous posting:
>
> <hansl>
> open data9-7
> scalar p = 4
> var p PRIME UNEMP
> list RHS = const PRIME(-1 to -p) UNEMP(-1 to -p)
> # first equation: does UNEMP Granger-cause PRIME?
> ols PRIME RHS --quiet
> omit UNEMP(-1 to -p) --quiet --test-only
> eval $test
> eval $pvalue
> # second equation: does PRIME Granger-cause UNEMP?
> ols UNEMP RHS --quiet
> omit PRIME(-1 to -p) --quiet --test-only
> eval $test
> eval $pvalue
> </hansl>
>
> Allin Cottrell
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 5
> Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2013 13:15:43 +0200
> From: Gian Lorenzo Spisso <glspisso(a)gmail.com>
> Subject: [Gretl-users] Implement new criterion for var lag selection
> To: gretl-users(a)lists.wfu.edu
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>
> Hi all,
> I would like to implement in GRETL the procedure for lag selection of a VAR
> as specified here:
> http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/1350485022000041050 which
> essentialy replace BIC and HQC with a weighted average of the two.
>
> Is there any easy to install package that I could use?
> Otherwise could it be possible to simply reprogram AIC column to show this
> criterion instead? In case can anybody provide a little guidance for the
> process? I am not familiar with gretl programming.
>
> Thank you,
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> Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2013 14:45:28 +0200 (CEST)
> From: "Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti" <r.lucchetti(a)univpm.it>
> Subject: Re: [Gretl-users] Implement new criterion for var lag
>       selection
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> On Tue, 9 Jul 2013, Gian Lorenzo Spisso wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>> I would like to implement in GRETL the procedure for lag selection of a VAR
>> as specified here:
>> http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/1350485022000041050 which
>> essentialy replace BIC and HQC with a weighted average of the two.
>>
>> Is there any easy to install package that I could use?
>> Otherwise could it be possible to simply reprogram AIC column to show this
>> criterion instead? In case can anybody provide a little guidance for the
>> process? I am not familiar with gretl programming.
> I don't have a subscription to "Applied Economics Journal". Could you
> describe me the proposed method?
>
> -------------------------------------------------------
>     Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti
>     Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali (DiSES)
>
>     Universit? Politecnica delle Marche
>     (formerly known as Universit? di Ancona)
>
>     r.lucchetti(a)univpm.it
>     http://www2.econ.univpm.it/servizi/hpp/lucchetti
> -------------------------------------------------------
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 7
> Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2013 14:58:42 +0200
> From: Gian Lorenzo Spisso <glspisso(a)gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Gretl-users] Implement new criterion for var lag
>       selection
> To: r.lucchetti(a)univpm.it, Gretl list <gretl-users(a)lists.wfu.edu>
> Message-ID:
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>
> Dear Riccardo,
> I attach a screenshot of the relevant part.
> You can see the formulas for the two criterion, and the new criterion
> proposed by Hatemi which simply averages the two. He then goes on and uses
> a Montecarlo simulation to show that this mixed criterion as higher
> probability in picking the right lag.
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 2:45 PM, Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti <
> r.lucchetti(a)univpm.it> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 9 Jul 2013, Gian Lorenzo Spisso wrote:
>>
>>   Hi all,
>>> I would like to implement in GRETL the procedure for lag selection of a
>>> VAR
>>> as specified here:
>>> http://www.tandfonline.com/**doi/pdf/10.1080/**1350485022000041050<http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/1350485022000041050>which
>>> essentialy replace BIC and HQC with a weighted average of the two.
>>>
>>> Is there any easy to install package that I could use?
>>> Otherwise could it be possible to simply reprogram AIC column to show this
>>> criterion instead? In case can anybody provide a little guidance for the
>>> process? I am not familiar with gretl programming.
>>>
>> I don't have a subscription to "Applied Economics Journal". Could you
>> describe me the proposed method?
>>
>> ------------------------------**-------------------------
>>    Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti
>>    Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali (DiSES)
>>
>>    Universit? Politecnica delle Marche
>>    (formerly known as Universit? di Ancona)
>>
>>    r.lucchetti(a)univpm.it
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GRAPH OF TWO DENSITIES TOGETHER: Thanks for providing the older link. Although the code there is to plot two densities consecutively from left to right, while what I need to do is to superimpose them - and this I realize now has the problem of having two different abscissaes series. Still, I learned something new about handling plots in Gretl.

CONSTANT IN LOG-LIKELIHOOD
The basic code without the constant in the log-l is (omitting the initial part where OLS executes to obtain initial values)

<<
matrix Depv = {LWAGE}
matrix Regrs = {const,  EXP,   EXP2, WKS,  OCC,  IND,  SOUTH,  SMSA,  MS,  FEM,  UNION,   ED, BLK}
matrix cVec = {c0,c1,c2,c3,c4,c5,c6,c7,c8,c9,c10,c11,c12}'
scalar v0 = 1
scalar v1 = 1
scalar v2 = 1

mle logl = check ?   -ln(v) - 0.5*(e2hn/v)^2 + ln(cdf(D,l1/sqrt(1+l1^2), e2hn/omega1, 0) - cdf(D,-l2/sqrt(1+l2^2), e2hn/omega2, 0)):NA
    series e2hn = Depv - Regrs*cVec
scalar v = sqrt(v0^2 + v1^2 + v2^2)
scalar l1 = (v2/v1)*(v/v0)
scalar l2 = (v1/v2)*(v/v0)
scalar omega1 = (v*v0/v1)*sqrt(1+ (v2/v0)^2)
scalar omega2 = (v*v0/v2)*sqrt(1+ (v1/v0)^2)
scalar check = (v0>0) && (v1>0) && (v2>0)
params cVec  v0 v1 v2 
end mle  --verbose
>>

and  gives final results
<<
--- FINAL VALUES:
loglikelihood = -447.517658694 (steplength = 8.38861e-017)
Parameters:       5.6103    0.029306 -0.00048463   0.0036368    -0.16393    0.083254
               -0.058693     0.16568    0.093867    -0.32751     0.10612    0.056644
                -0.18925     0.21983     0.26368     0.28759
Gradients:   7.1632e-005 -0.00019598   0.0051691 -0.00055942 5.6355e-005 2.3537e-006
             4.7828e-005-7.9492e-006 2.2249e-005-2.2649e-006 2.5091e-005 -0.00029823
             5.1958e-006 7.7593e-005 5.9452e-006-2.5091e-005 (norm 5.45e-003)

Tolerance = 1.81899e-012

Function evaluations: 397
Evaluations of gradient: 72

Model 3: ML, using observations 1-595
logl = check ? -ln(v) - 0.5*(e2hn/v)^2 + ln(cdf(D,l1/sqrt(1+l1^2), e2hn/omega1, 0) - cdf(D,-l2/sqrt(1+l2^2), e2hn/omega2, 0)):NA
Standard errors based on Outer Products matrix

               estimate     std. error      z       p-value
  ----------------------------------------------------------
  cVec[1]     5.61026       0.189973      29.53    1.12e-191 ***
  cVec[2]     0.0293063     0.00650305     4.507   6.59e-06  ***
  cVec[3]    -0.000484630   0.000127917   -3.789   0.0002    ***
  cVec[4]     0.00363680    0.00253677     1.434   0.1517  
  cVec[5]    -0.163931      0.0372662     -4.399   1.09e-05  ***
  cVec[6]     0.0832535     0.0305658      2.724   0.0065    ***
  cVec[7]    -0.0586933     0.0300906     -1.951   0.0511    *
  cVec[8]     0.165683      0.0296335      5.591   2.26e-08  ***
  cVec[9]     0.0938665     0.0469460      1.999   0.0456    **
  cVec[10]   -0.327510      0.0678567     -4.826   1.39e-06  ***
  cVec[11]    0.106121      0.0335694      3.161   0.0016    ***
  cVec[12]    0.0566442     0.00623447     9.086   1.03e-019 ***
  cVec[13]   -0.189253      0.0551030     -3.435   0.0006    ***
  v0          0.219829      0.0951096      2.311   0.0208    **
  v1          0.263683      0.111617       2.362   0.0182    **
  v2          0.287589      0.103953       2.767   0.0057    ***

Log-likelihood      -447.5177   Akaike criterion     927.0353
Schwarz criterion    997.2523   Hannan-Quinn         954.3796
>>

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If  I specify
mle logl = check ?  ln(4/sqrt(2/$pi)) - ln(v)  etc
 I get
<<
--- FINAL VALUES:
loglikelihood = 511.673340992 (steplength = 1.6384e-010)
Parameters:       5.6103    0.029306 -0.00048463   0.0036368    -0.16393    0.083254
               -0.058694     0.16568    0.093868    -0.32751     0.10612    0.056644
                -0.18925     0.21983     0.26368     0.28759
Gradients:   -0.00013035   0.0013600    0.052876  -0.0098550 6.4448e-005 -0.00051251
              0.00057035-8.1379e-006 -0.00036188 -0.00042025  0.00034582  -0.0013756
              0.00053909  -0.0013437  0.00054025 -0.00083513 (norm 1.11e-002)

Tolerance = 1.81899e-012

Function evaluations: 493
Evaluations of gradient: 82

Model 3: ML, using observations 1-595
logl = check ? ln(4/sqrt(2/$pi)) -ln(v) - 0.5*(e2hn/v)^2 + ln(cdf(D,l1/sqrt(1+l1^2), e2hn/omega1, 0) - cdf(D,-l2/sqrt(1+l2^2), e2hn/omega2, 0)):NA
Standard errors based on Outer Products matrix

               estimate     std. error      z       p-value
  ----------------------------------------------------------
  cVec[1]     5.61027       0.189973      29.53    1.12e-191 ***
  cVec[2]     0.0293063     0.00650305     4.507   6.59e-06  ***
  cVec[3]    -0.000484629   0.000127917   -3.789   0.0002    ***
  cVec[4]     0.00363683    0.00253677     1.434   0.1517  
  cVec[5]    -0.163931      0.0372663     -4.399   1.09e-05  ***
  cVec[6]     0.0832537     0.0305658      2.724   0.0065    ***
  cVec[7]    -0.0586936     0.0300906     -1.951   0.0511    *
  cVec[8]     0.165683      0.0296335      5.591   2.26e-08  ***
  cVec[9]     0.0938678     0.0469461      1.999   0.0456    **
  cVec[10]   -0.327508      0.0678569     -4.826   1.39e-06  ***
  cVec[11]    0.106121      0.0335695      3.161   0.0016    ***
  cVec[12]    0.0566442     0.00623448     9.086   1.03e-019 ***
  cVec[13]   -0.189254      0.0551031     -3.435   0.0006    ***
  v0          0.219833      0.0951107      2.311   0.0208    **
  v1          0.263678      0.111623       2.362   0.0182    **
  v2          0.287587      0.103956       2.766   0.0057    ***

Log-likelihood       511.6733   Akaike criterion    -991.3467
Schwarz criterion   -921.1297   Hannan-Quinn        -964.0024
>>

COMMENT: all parameter estimates are very close but the value of the log-likelihood is positive.

---------------------------------------------
If I specify  mle logl = check ?  0.467355827915218 - ln(v)  etc I get
<<
--- FINAL VALUES:
loglikelihood = -172.877055337 (steplength = 5.36871e-021)
Parameters:       5.7197    0.029288 -0.00048358   0.0037060    -0.17731    0.065087
               -0.062683     0.16589    0.096647    -0.34367    0.098338    0.054146
                -0.18382 2.2828e-008     0.33034     0.42766
Gradients:       0.98941     -16.941      65.400      61.632    -0.42174     0.31255
               -0.078953     0.32094   -0.099944   -0.028678      1.6085      23.937
                 0.80591 6.6747e-005    0.045333   0.0018853 (norm 7.16e-001)

Tolerance = 1.81899e-012

Function evaluations: 502
Evaluations of gradient: 79

Model 5: ML, using observations 1-595
logl = check ? 0.467355827915218 -ln(v) - 0.5*(e2hn/v)^2 + ln(cdf(D,l1/sqrt(1+l1^2), e2hn/omega1, 0) - cdf(D,-l2/sqrt(1+l2^2), e2hn/omega2, 0)):NA
Standard errors based on Outer Products matrix

               estimate        std. error         z       p-value
  ----------------------------------------------------------------
  cVec[1]     5.71974            0.179086      31.94     7.79e-224 ***
  cVec[2]     0.0292883          0.00593066     4.938    7.87e-07  ***
  cVec[3]    -0.000483577        0.000116778   -4.141    3.46e-05  ***
  cVec[4]     0.00370595         0.00245961     1.507    0.1319  
  cVec[5]    -0.177311           0.0358279     -4.949    7.46e-07  ***
  cVec[6]     0.0650868          0.0284437      2.288    0.0221    **
  cVec[7]    -0.0626826          0.0289442     -2.166    0.0303    **
  cVec[8]     0.165888           0.0279917      5.926    3.10e-09  ***
  cVec[9]     0.0966475          0.0452880      2.134    0.0328    **
  cVec[10]   -0.343670           0.0618104     -5.560    2.70e-08  ***
  cVec[11]    0.0983375          0.0315998      3.112    0.0019    ***
  cVec[12]    0.0541457          0.00606580     8.926    4.40e-019 ***
  cVec[13]   -0.183823           0.0524279     -3.506    0.0005    ***
  v0          2.28282e-08   405491              0.0000   1.0000  
  v1          0.330336           0.0328825     10.05     9.57e-024 ***
  v2          0.427663           0.0335927     12.73     3.98e-037 ***

Log-likelihood      -172.8771   Akaike criterion     377.7541
Schwarz criterion    447.9711   Hannan-Quinn         405.0984
>>

COMMENT: slope coefficients are again comparable and the value of the likelihood is close to what it should have been if its constant term was added afterwards. But the estimates of the three variance terms v0 v1 v2 are totally different, the one reaching the specified boundary of the parameter space (zero).
Alecos Papadopoulos
Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece
Department of Economics
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   1. retrieving F-stat and p-value from a VAR system (cociuba mihai)
   2. Re: Constant in log-likelihood and graph of two densities
      together (Allin Cottrell)
   3. Re: retrieving F-stat and p-value from a VAR system
      (Allin Cottrell)
   4. Re: retrieving F-stat and p-value from a VAR system
      (Allin Cottrell)
   5. Implement new criterion for var lag selection
      (Gian Lorenzo Spisso)
   6. Re: Implement new criterion for var lag selection
      (Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti)
   7. Re: Implement new criterion for var lag selection
      (Gian Lorenzo Spisso)


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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2013 01:44:11 +0300
From: cociuba mihai <[email protected]>
Subject: [Gretl-users] retrieving F-stat and p-value from a VAR system
To: [email protected]
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Dear GRETL users,
I'm testing Granger causality between inflation and inflation uncertainty
for 15 countries and I would like to retrieve the result of the Wald test
in a matrix, the script that I try to run gets stuck at the last step. Any
suggestion are welcome.

###hansl###
open Table_17.3.gdt
var 10 M1 R --lagselect
a=2
b=3
c=6
d=8
#number of rows 4, but the number of F statistics reported in the VAR
output for #every equations is 3 so maybe I need more?
scalar T = 4
#generate the matrix with 4 rows and 2 colums
matrix F_stat = zeros(T,2)
#rename the colums
# is it possible to have also the name of the F test?
colnames(F_stat, "t-stat p-value")
    loop foreach i a b c d
var $i M1 R --nc
F_stat[$i,] = $test ~ $pvalue
endloop
print F_stat
###end###

Thanks, Mihai
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Message: 2
Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2013 21:31:05 -0400 (EDT)
From: Allin Cottrell <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Gretl-users] Constant in log-likelihood and graph of two
	densities together
To: Gretl list <[email protected]>
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On Mon, 8 Jul 2013, Alecos Papadopoulos wrote:

Good evening everybody. I am rather new to Gretl and my questions 
are probably kindergarten-level, but I could not figure out the 
answers myself or using Help. So here they are

1) I run maximum likelihood from the script window. I am trying 
two different and non-nested stochastic specifications. I have to 
compare and evaluate them by using the value of the maximized 
log-likelihood. But since they are non-nested, their 
log-likelihood functions are totally different. So, suddenly, the 
constants of each log-likelihood, although they play no role in 
the estimation of the parameters, influence the value of the 
maximized logl - and they are different constants.

If I don't include them in the logl function, then the values of 
the maximized logl (and the AIC and BIC and HQ criteria) will be 
misleading for comparison purposes of the two competing stochastic 
specifications, and currently I am doing the corrections by hand 
(which I can live with). But it would be nice not to have output 
that needs such corrections. I tried to include them in the 
specification of the logl after the "mle logl = " command. But 
when I tried to include them as, say, "ln(4/sqrt(2/pi))" or 
"ln(4/sqrt(2/%pi)) I get "syntax error on the command line".
The recommended way of accessing pi = 3.14... in current gretl 
(version 1.9.12) is "$pi", though plain "pi" (deprecated since May 
2012) will still work; "%pi" will definitely not work. The 
_expression_

ln(4/sqrt(2/$pi))

is correctly evaluated as 1.612... in current gretl.

When I calculate them explicitly, say 0.45678 and enter this 
constant instead, Gretl runs, but the estimation goes astray, and 
produces different results than when the constant is not included. 
I suspect that this may have something to do with the fact that I 
do not specify analytical derivatives, but I really don't know. 
What am I doing wrong?
The issue of analytical versus numerical derivatives wouldn't seem 
to be relevant to the inclusion or non-inclusion of a constant term 
(which obviously doesn't have a derivative) in the log-likelihood.
I suppose something else must be wrong here. I think you'll have to 
show us your full script to get useful help.

2) Again for comparison purposes, I would want to have in one graph the
estimated densities of two series. But when I select two series the
"Variable" menu becomes disabled, while in the "View" menu there are
various graph options, but not the option to graph the estimated
densities of the two series together. Is there a way around this?
This question has come up before. Please see 
http://lists.wfu.edu/pipermail/gretl-users/2013-April/008745.html

Allin Cottrell


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Message: 3
Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2013 21:59:16 -0400 (EDT)
From: Allin Cottrell <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Gretl-users] retrieving F-stat and p-value from a VAR
	system
To: Gretl list <[email protected]>
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On Tue, 9 Jul 2013, cociuba mihai wrote:

I'm testing Granger causality between inflation and inflation 
uncertainty for 15 countries and I would like to retrieve the 
result of the Wald test...
What Wald test? (That is, for what null hypothesis?)

in a matrix, the script that I try to run gets stuck at the last 
step. Any suggestion are welcome.
[last step]
loop foreach i a b c d
  var $i M1 R --nc
  F_stat[$i,] = $test ~ $pvalue
endloop
The "var" command in gretl does not supply a $test accessor. In fact 
no model estimation command in gretl does that: the label "test" is 
much too general, given that many sorts of tests might be 
contemplated after estimating a given model (either single-equation 
or multi-equation).

Since a VAR is just a collection of equations related in a certain 
way (identical right-hand sides, specific relation between left-hand 
side variables and right-hand sides), estimated in practice via OLS, 
you can get whatever Wald statistics you want by estimating the 
equations singly via the "ols" command, and using either "omit" or 
"restrict" (which do produce $test and $pvalue).

(I suppose we could generalize the current scalar $Fstat accessor 
for single equation models to a matrix for VARs, but that would 
require some decisions on which F-stats to include and in what 
configuration.)

Allin Cottrell


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Message: 4
Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2013 22:15:21 -0400 (EDT)
From: Allin Cottrell <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Gretl-users] retrieving F-stat and p-value from a VAR
	system
To: Gretl list <[email protected]>
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On Mon, 8 Jul 2013, Allin Cottrell wrote:

On Tue, 9 Jul 2013, cociuba mihai wrote:

I'm testing Granger causality between inflation and inflation uncertainty 
for 15 countries and I would like to retrieve the result of the Wald 
test...
What Wald test? (That is, for what null hypothesis?)
OK, in fact clear enough from context. Trivial example of what I 
described in my previous posting:

<hansl>
open data9-7
scalar p = 4
var p PRIME UNEMP
list RHS = const PRIME(-1 to -p) UNEMP(-1 to -p)
# first equation: does UNEMP Granger-cause PRIME?
ols PRIME RHS --quiet
omit UNEMP(-1 to -p) --quiet --test-only
eval $test
eval $pvalue
# second equation: does PRIME Granger-cause UNEMP?
ols UNEMP RHS --quiet
omit PRIME(-1 to -p) --quiet --test-only
eval $test
eval $pvalue
</hansl>

Allin Cottrell


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Message: 5
Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2013 13:15:43 +0200
From: Gian Lorenzo Spisso <[email protected]>
Subject: [Gretl-users] Implement new criterion for var lag selection
To: [email protected]
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Hi all,
I would like to implement in GRETL the procedure for lag selection of a VAR
as specified here:
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/1350485022000041050 which
essentialy replace BIC and HQC with a weighted average of the two.

Is there any easy to install package that I could use?
Otherwise could it be possible to simply reprogram AIC column to show this
criterion instead? In case can anybody provide a little guidance for the
process? I am not familiar with gretl programming.

Thank you,
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Message: 6
Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2013 14:45:28 +0200 (CEST)
From: "Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Gretl-users] Implement new criterion for var lag
	selection
To: Gretl list <[email protected]>
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On Tue, 9 Jul 2013, Gian Lorenzo Spisso wrote:

Hi all,
I would like to implement in GRETL the procedure for lag selection of a VAR
as specified here:
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/1350485022000041050 which
essentialy replace BIC and HQC with a weighted average of the two.

Is there any easy to install package that I could use?
Otherwise could it be possible to simply reprogram AIC column to show this
criterion instead? In case can anybody provide a little guidance for the
process? I am not familiar with gretl programming.
I don't have a subscription to "Applied Economics Journal". Could you 
describe me the proposed method?

-------------------------------------------------------
   Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti
   Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali (DiSES)

   Universit? Politecnica delle Marche
   (formerly known as Universit? di Ancona)

   [email protected]
   http://www2.econ.univpm.it/servizi/hpp/lucchetti
-------------------------------------------------------

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Message: 7
Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2013 14:58:42 +0200
From: Gian Lorenzo Spisso <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Gretl-users] Implement new criterion for var lag
	selection
To: [email protected], Gretl list <[email protected]>
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Dear Riccardo,
I attach a screenshot of the relevant part.
You can see the formulas for the two criterion, and the new criterion
proposed by Hatemi which simply averages the two. He then goes on and uses
a Montecarlo simulation to show that this mixed criterion as higher
probability in picking the right lag.


On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 2:45 PM, Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti <
[email protected]> wrote:

On Tue, 9 Jul 2013, Gian Lorenzo Spisso wrote:

 Hi all,
I would like to implement in GRETL the procedure for lag selection of a
VAR
as specified here:
http://www.tandfonline.com/**doi/pdf/10.1080/**1350485022000041050<http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/1350485022000041050>which
essentialy replace BIC and HQC with a weighted average of the two.

Is there any easy to install package that I could use?
Otherwise could it be possible to simply reprogram AIC column to show this
criterion instead? In case can anybody provide a little guidance for the
process? I am not familiar with gretl programming.

I don't have a subscription to "Applied Economics Journal". Could you
describe me the proposed method?

------------------------------**-------------------------
  Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti
  Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali (DiSES)

  Universit? Politecnica delle Marche
  (formerly known as Universit? di Ancona)

  [email protected]
  http://www2.econ.univpm.it/**servizi/hpp/lucchetti<http://www2.econ.univpm.it/servizi/hpp/lucchetti>
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