Re: [Gretl-users] May I be bold? Meta-suggestions

2014-05-02 Thread Jack
On Fri, 2 May 2014, Tim Nall wrote: > All, > > Again please refer to previous disclaimers about the fact that I > certainly and truly have no idea what I am talking about w. respect to > statistics, and perhaps with respect to other issues as well. > > In an earlier post, someone or other expresse

Re: [Gretl-users] SVAR/SVEC (ps)

2014-05-02 Thread Jack
On Fri, 2 May 2014, Tim Nall wrote: > In an earlier post (with a different subject line) I mentioned that > the SVAR graphs could be more informative by adding "IRF by shock" and > IRF by var". That same principle might apply to adding the model > option to the graph title, e.g., "Plain model" or

Re: [Gretl-users] tramolin error: New data not conformable for appending

2014-05-02 Thread Tim Nall
More unfortunate news. I manually deleted the last 5 rows off the entire data file (can live without them), thinking that would solve my problem, and you could fix tramolin in your spare time. No, sorry, even with the last rows populated now, it still crashes, though nobser has changed to 186 in mo

Re: [Gretl-users] tramolin error: New data not conformable for appending

2014-05-02 Thread Tim Nall
Sorry, no, it doesn't. In the file upload box, tramolin did display as "Not up to date" before I downloaded it, so it seems I got the new copy. This one is 1.6 ... I tried with a file that had zeroes, and with another file that had empty cells .. both crashed.. if it helps, it seems that xint.t is

Re: [Gretl-users] tramolin error: New data not conformable for appending

2014-05-02 Thread Tim Nall
First, I was wrong. Changing the sample range doesn't help. Perhaps I clicked the wrong var the second time. Second, I use a file editor to look at the 6 files in \Application Data\gretl\tramo\graph\series ...they have nobs (number observations) equal to 190; should be 196. The reason the progra

Re: [Gretl-users] May I be bold? Meta-suggestions

2014-05-02 Thread Narandra Dashora
Non Parametric tests do this . Any book on Research methodology do that On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 9:56 AM, Tim Nall wrote: > I don't want to talk too much, but I have read that there are some > goals/tests for which a which a normal data distribution is not > important, and others for which it ver

Re: [Gretl-users] May I be bold? Meta-suggestions

2014-05-02 Thread oleg_komashko at ukr . net
Discussion of assumptions is a question of econometrics and is not sofware specific. But, may be, some of me experience would be interesting. I modeled  well behaved (in the other senses) cross-sectional data for regression with power-law disturbances. (I admire Taleb, but don't agree with him

Re: [Gretl-users] May I be bold? Meta-suggestions

2014-05-02 Thread oleg_komashko at ukr . net
I think everyone is allowed to write her (oh, or his) own book on gretl if it   is duly referenced to the gretl team --- Оригінальне повідомлення --- Від кого: "Tim Nall" < tnall.ling(a)gmail.com > Дата: 2 травня 2014, 06:26:04 All, Again please refer to previous disclaimers about the fact t

Re: [Gretl-users] May I be bold? Meta-suggestions

2014-05-02 Thread Tim Nall
I don't want to talk too much, but I have read that there are some goals/tests for which a which a normal data distribution is not important, and others for which it very definitely is. And my suggestion would be, if a book did exist: put that and similar information on page 1 of every chapter, in

Re: [Gretl-users] tramolin error: New data not conformable for appending

2014-05-02 Thread Ignacio Diaz-Emparanza
On 02/05/14 12:01, Tim Nall wrote: > Sorry, no, it doesn't. In the file upload box, tramolin did display as > "Not up to date" before I downloaded it, so it seems I got the new > copy. This one is 1.6 ... I tried with a file that had zeroes, and > with another file that had empty cells .. both c

Re: [Gretl-users] tramolin error: New data not conformable for appending

2014-05-02 Thread Ignacio Diaz-Emparanza
On 02/05/14 11:20, Tim Nall wrote: > First, I was wrong. Changing the sample range doesn't help. Perhaps I > clicked the wrong var the second time. > > Second, I use a file editor to look at the 6 files in > \Application Data\gretl\tramo\graph\series > > ...they have nobs (number observations) equ

Re: [Gretl-users] tramolin error: New data not conformable for appending

2014-05-02 Thread Ignacio Diaz-Emparanza
On 01/05/14 10:37, Tim Nall wrote: > Series has zeroes from time to time, including four in a row in the > last four observations. I restricted the data to a sample with far > fewer zeroes, and did not receive the same error. TMN > > Tramolin uses 'append' to retrieve the "linear series" (adjusted

[Gretl-users] May I be bold? Meta-suggestions

2014-05-02 Thread Tim Nall
All, Again please refer to previous disclaimers about the fact that I certainly and truly have no idea what I am talking about w. respect to statistics, and perhaps with respect to other issues as well. In an earlier post, someone or other expressed a concern that gretl might be perceived as a t

[Gretl-users] SVAR/SVEC (ps)

2014-05-02 Thread Tim Nall
In an earlier post (with a different subject line) I mentioned that the SVAR graphs could be more informative by adding "IRF by shock" and IRF by var". That same principle might apply to adding the model option to the graph title, e.g., "Plain model" or "KPSW Model." And at a higher level of menu

Re: [Gretl-users] May I be bold? Meta-suggestions

2014-05-02 Thread Narandra Dashora
If it is not undue intervention as an humble student of Econometrics ( I am 70 years old ) I feel The various assumptions about Normal Distribution are hardly met in real life data. If one has sound theory yest there is no co integration of data or unit root is present then there are two golden w