Hello,

I checked my code a bit more. Apparently it was not the case that some 
un-initialised garbage was saved but that floating-point errors must have 
become evident. The original series of which I calculated the order stats (lq = 
lower quartile -- lq_lq was the lower quartile of the series of the lower 
quartile of the stat "Hunger") was an ARMA like process, adding and multiplying 
"close to zeros" (see attached file)... Just one thing where I did not control 
for such behaviour. :/

See e.g. Izquierdo, Luis R.; Polhill, J. Gary (2006): Is Your Model Susceptible 
to Floating-Point Errors? In: JASS 9 (4), S. 4. 
http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/9/4/4.html 

Regards
Frederik

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Betreff: Re: [Gretl-users] Data Import - non-numeric values

On Mon, 28 Sep 2015, Schaff, Frederik wrote:

> thanks very much Allen! I'll take the advice to heart. Fortunately in 
> the case where these garbage values are "created" a part of the 
> analysis (corresponding to these values) has not been conducted and 
> that is flagged (in another "non-garbage" variable), so I can 
> post-process these values. What are the "maximal" values gretl takes 
> as import? +-1e100 and +-1e-100?

Gretl accepts the judgment of the C library on numerical underflow or overflow. 
On the big side we can be fairly definite: anything less than 1.79769e308 
should be fine. On the close-to-zero side numbers greater in absolute value 
than 1e-308 should be OK for most C libraries.

Allin
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