Re: [Gretl-users] Inflation...

2008-09-27 Thread artur bala
Hi Marius, In my opinion, it shouldn't be corrected. Regressing on inflation is quite enough. Basically, in macroeconomics analysis, excepting the growth theory, we're mainly interested on relationship between nominal variables (the quantity of stuff) not real (the value of stuff). Otherwise, h

Re: [Gretl-users] Inflation... Ops, a slip

2008-09-28 Thread artur bala
Hi Marius, I'm sure you rectified my slip of the pen : ... nominal variables (the quantity of stuff) ...real (the value of stuff). Indeed, it's vice-versa. Artur

[Gretl-users] translation

2009-04-03 Thread artur bala
Hi, A short question: How can I manage to translate gretl into another language? thanx Artur

Re: [Gretl-users] translation

2009-04-04 Thread artur bala
PoEdit to translate the program. Which system do you use: Linux, Windows or Mac OS? Best, Henrique On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 5:05 PM, artur bala wrote: Hi, A short question: How can I manage to translate gretl into another language? thanx Artur ___ G

[Gretl-users] plots title

2009-04-19 Thread artur bala
Hi! When I select 2 or more variables to plot a time series graphic "separately", Gretl uses the variables' name as graphic title instead of their "graphic label". If I plot them into the same graphic, gretl uses their "graphic label" properly. Artur

Re: [Gretl-users] Feature request...

2009-06-25 Thread artur bala
But don't forget at first to sort the data--on an ascending order--by the variable supposed to be the cause of heteroskedasticity... ;-)  (by clicking on Data/Sort data) artur Sven Schreiber a écrit : It seems to me that this is a good candidate for a packaged function, no? cheers, sven

Re: [Gretl-users] Feature request...

2009-06-25 Thread artur bala
But don't forget at first to sort the data--on an ascending order--by the variable supposed to be the cause of heteroskedasticity... ;-)  (by clicking on Data/Sort data) artur Sven Schreiber a écrit : It seems to me that this is a good candidate for a packaged function, no? cheers, sven

Re: [Gretl-users] non-linear Wald-Test

2009-08-07 Thread artur bala
Hi, Is there any command in gretl to obtained grouped descriptive statistics based on a dummy or a discrete variable (without passing through "smpl --restrict" command) ? best, artur

Re: [Gretl-users] Generating a random walk

2009-09-06 Thread artur bala
Welcome and enjoy! You ca use this command: genr series rw = dow(-1) + normal(0,1) artur Data Analytics Corp. a écrit : > Hi, > > I'm still new to GRETL, so please pardon a simple question. I want my > students to generate a simple random walk of, say 1000 values, so that > they can compare (

Re: [Gretl-users] Generating a random walk

2009-09-06 Thread artur bala
Otherwise, if you want to keep track of lagged and white noise variables, you can use this: genr random_walk = normal(0,1) genr dow_1 = dow(-1) genr rw = dow_1 + random_walk artur artur bala a écrit : > Welcome and enjoy! You ca use this command: > > genr series rw = dow(-1)

Re: [Gretl-users] loop

2009-11-22 Thread artur bala
Hi Rem, That's a grouped mean that you need I guess. Try this: smpl x=0 --restrict summary y smpl x=1 --restrict --replace summary y smpl x=2 --restrict --replace summary y smpl x=3 --restrict --replace summary y artur Remigijus Lapinskas a écrit :

Re: [Gretl-users] loop

2009-11-22 Thread artur bala
the following script may fit pretty better as the result will be a vector containing the grouped means only meanvector = zeros(3,1) loop i=0..2     smpl x = i --restrict --replace     meanvector[i+1,1]=mean(y) endloop meanvector Artur artur bala a écrit : Hi Rem, That's a grouped

[Gretl-users] sub-sampling panel data

2009-12-11 Thread artur . bala
Laposte.net vous souhaite de Joyeuses Fêtes de fin d'année. Je crée ma boîte mail www.laposte.net Hello,I'm working with an unbalanced panel data and want to sub-sample on a dummy variable which has no mising values throughout the full sample. Is it normal that the outcome contain many empty obse

Re: [Gretl-users] sub-sampling panel data

2009-12-12 Thread artur bala
Sven Schreiber a écrit : > artur.bala schrieb: > >> Hello, >> >> I'm working with an unbalanced panel data and want to sub-sample on a >> dummy variable which has no mising values throughout the full sample. Is >> it normal that the outcome contain many empty observations? >> >> > Or do yo

Re: [Gretl-users] sub-sampling panel data

2009-12-13 Thread artur bala
Thank you Sven, I now see where's the problem. It's the dummy variable containing some missing values instead of zeros. Sorry! best, artur artur bala a écrit : Sven Schreiber a écrit : artur.bala schrieb: Hello, I'm working with an unbalanced

Re: [Gretl-users] sub-sampling panel data

2009-12-13 Thread artur bala
blem. It's the dummy variable containing some missing values instead of zeros. Sorry! best, artur artur bala a écrit : Sven Schreiber a écrit : artur.bala schrieb: Hello, I'm working with an unbalanced panel data and want to sub-sample on a dumm

Re: [Gretl-users] Problem on Graphs in Gretl, windows XP

2009-12-13 Thread artur bala
Ola Hebert, Are you working on your own computer or in a lab? Something like that happened to me while working on a pc as an "invited user" and not as "administrator". At last, try to uninstall and install again. best, artur Hebert Suárez Cahuana a écrit : > I have two questions, I had install g

Re: [Gretl-users] How to build file with labels?

2009-12-13 Thread artur bala
Hebert Suárez Cahuana a écrit : > I want to assign labels to my data, in /Data/Add label Sorry Hebert but I can't find such a command? Do you mean /Data/Dataset info? Generally, you assign "labels" to variables and "info" to data. cheers, artur

Re: [Gretl-users] sub-sampling panel data

2009-12-15 Thread artur bala
Allin Cottrell a écrit : I have now (in CVS) changed the behavior of smpl --restrict so that it doesn't strive to produce a balanced panel It works fine! Thanks! unless you give the new --balanced option. What still intrigues me when  using the --balanced flag is that the number o

[Gretl-users] gnuplot crash vs language

2009-12-17 Thread artur bala
Hi, It happens that I'm using gretl's french version and in the test calculator window the gnuplot command fails systematically for all tests. I checked all other languages and the gnuplot crashes only for one-variance test. best, artur

[Gretl-users] if command

2010-01-06 Thread artur bala
I'm running an if loop and gretl halts saying " error evaluating 'if' ". What's wrong with that? artur

Re: [Gretl-users] if command

2010-01-06 Thread artur . bala
ode of the loop? > > -- > Charles Koss > http://charlesonnet.blogspot.com/ > > On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 9:01 PM, artur bala wrote: > > I'm running an if loop and gretl halts saying " error evaluating 'if' ". > > What's wrong with that? > >

[Gretl-users] pooled panel

2010-01-06 Thread artur . bala
Hi, I'm estimating a panel model with the "pooled" option but the output still contains the mention "Included xxx cross-sectional units". artur Une messagerie gratuite, garantie à vie et des services en plus, ça vous tente ? Je crée ma boîte mail www.laposte.net Hi, I'm estimating a panel model

Re: [Gretl-users] pooled panel

2010-01-06 Thread artur . bala
Sven, your question enlighted me! Now I realize! It is not a problem at all! Indeed,through "cross-sectional units" I was obstinating to read "cross-sectional intercepts". Sorry for this false alarm and thanx again. Artur > Message du 06/01/10 13:12 > De : "Sven Schreiber" > A : "artur.bala" ,

Re: [Gretl-users] Monte Carlo simulation with correlated variables

2010-01-12 Thread artur . bala
Une messagerie gratuite, garantie à vie et des services en plus, ça vous tente ? Je crée ma boîte mail www.laposte.net > if you have any readable references I would be more than happy to take a look at it. (By the way, I couldn't find anything in the Gretl-manual about the operator *= that was us

[Gretl-users] re-organizing panel data

2010-01-19 Thread artur . bala
Hi Allin, I'm trying to reset the structure of a panel from 62 : 24 to 124 : 12 observations through the "stacked time series" option but gretl pops-up with a "no changes were made" window and indeed, no changes are made to the dataset. Regards, artur Une messagerie gratuite, garantie à vie et

Re: [Gretl-users] Principal Components

2010-01-25 Thread artur bala
Henrique a écrit : > > I'm trying to rebuild the Financial Stress Index (Balakrishnan, > Danninger, Elekdag & Tytell (2009) The Transmission of Financial > Stress. IMF Working Paper) using a different technique. In this paper > the authors use a variance-equal weighting, something live this: > > In

[Gretl-users] x12 arima command crashes

2010-03-04 Thread artur bala
Hi, while executing the bjg.inp script, gretl crashes on estimating conditional x12 arima at line "arima 0 1 1 ; 0 1 1 ; lg --nc --x-12-arima --conditional" popping up the message "fails to execute x12arima". best, artur

Re: [Gretl-users] x12 arima command crashes

2010-03-04 Thread artur bala
Allin Cottrell a écrit : On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, artur bala wrote: while executing the bjg.inp script, gretl crashes on estimating conditional x12 arima at line "arima 0 1 1 ; 0 1 1 ; lg --nc --x-12-arima --conditional" popping up the message "fails to e

Re: [Gretl-users] compare regression models

2010-04-10 Thread artur bala
> I have the task to compare regression models. The models are not nested. For > the simplest case let's consider the two simple regressions > > ols y 0 x1 > ols y 0 x2 > > Is it possible to test if x2 is a significant better regressor of y than x1 > is? Should I use an F-test to test this hypot

Re: [Gretl-users] A Matrix Question

2010-04-18 Thread artur bala
Henrique Andrade a écrit : > > matrix R = zeros(12,1) > > loop i=6..12 > R_$i = r[$i,1] + r[$i-1,2]+ r[$i-2,3]+ r[$i-3,4]+ r[$i-4,5]+ r[$i-5,6] > R[i] = R_$i > end loop > > Hi Henrique, Well, what do you think about the following general form : matrix R = zeros(dim1,dim2)# In your e

[Gretl-users] on freq command

2010-04-22 Thread artur . bala
Hi Allin, Just wanted to note that when executing the freq command with the --silent flag, gretl pops up three error messages: (i) Failed to open file 'C:\\gpttmp.a03344'; (ii) Unspecified error, and (iii) Failed to open file 'C:\...\gretltmp.png. However, these errors don't affect the outpu

Re: [Gretl-users] on freq command

2010-04-23 Thread artur bala
Yeah Allin, You're right! I've been testing on this end as well (script and console) and the error doesn't occur on gretl's 1.8.7. version (my own laptop). Obviously, our computer lab is "out-of-date". Sorry. Best, artur Allin Cottrell a écrit : > On Thu, 22 Apr 2010, artur.bala wrote: > > >

Re: [Gretl-users] selecting contiguous variables in lists

2010-04-29 Thread artur bala
Hi Frank, I think this script will partially solve your problem (X1 to X5) the final loop will provide X1 X2 X3 X4 X5 Artur > Message du 29/04/10 15:15 > De : "Franck Nadaud" > A : gretl-users(a)lists.wfu.edu > Copie à : > Objet : [Gretl-users] selecting contiguous variables in lists > > >

[Gretl-users] on gretl's menu

2010-05-19 Thread artur bala
Hi, Just wanted to share 2 ideas about gretl's menu: 1. why does the command come under the Robust Estimation> menu ? It seems a little bit counterintuitive, doesn't it? correlation is much more descriptive rather than a model. 2. should the menu switch to active even though 2 (or more) vari

Re: [Gretl-users] Loop question

2010-05-25 Thread artur bala
Or, if your index is something like of a geometric series as it seems to be (let's say 6, 12, 24, 48, and so on) and too long to do manually you can try this one: scalar count=0 loop for (count=6;count<=24;count=count*2) --quiet endloop <\script> cheers, artur Riccardo (Jack)

Re: [Gretl-users] Another loop question and a print question

2010-05-26 Thread artur bala
Hi pindar, Hope the following script may (partially) help you. It prints out the t-th period value for each unit. null Une messagerie gratuite, garantie à vie et des services en plus, ça vous tente ? Je crée ma boîte mail www.laposte.net Hi pindar,Hope the following script may (partially) help y

Re: [Gretl-users] ARIMA with season length of 3 months

2010-06-03 Thread artur bala
Hi, Through UI, just follow the menu path : Model/Time series/ARIMA and specify the seasonal lag you need. Otherwise, try to open gretl console and type in : /help arima/, to get more information on arima command Cheers, artur deepak bhatia a écrit : > I am new to gretl and have been using the

Re: [Gretl-users] Models Table - ARMA Models (partial info)

2010-06-03 Thread artur bala
Alejandro Mosiño a écrit : > Hello all, > > I don't know if there is a way to use the Models Table with ARMA models. > There's no way (at least up to 1.9.0 version of gretl). You can save a ARMA Model but can't "drag & drop" it into the Model Table cheers, artur

[Gretl-users] making graphs through a loop

2010-06-05 Thread artur bala
I want to create 5 times-series plot sequently using the "gnuplot" command into a loop. When I execute the loop commands one by one in gretl's console, gretl comes up with 5 graphs, but when I run the script as a whole, gretl only makes 5 .plt files. Is something wrong with that? How can I manag

Re: [Gretl-users] GUI enhancements

2010-06-20 Thread artur bala
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 6:22 PM, Allin Cottrell wrote: > * Main window right-click menu with multiple series selected, > correlation matrix option: this now presents an initial dialog > with the option of imposing a uniform sample for all the > pairwise correlations, in case of missing data

[Gretl-users] genr dummy on annual data

2010-07-25 Thread artur bala
Hello, On an annual dataset spanning from 1970 to 2010, I want to create a dummy valid from 2005 and on. I tried the following command line : * genr D = (t > "2005")* but the newly created variable D has zeros only. Same result through the GUI. Note that this script does work fine for a month

Re: [Gretl-users] genr dummy on annual data

2010-07-26 Thread artur bala
t to the same behavior regardless of the frequency. best, artur > Message du 26/07/10 09:57 > De : "Ignacio Diaz-Emparanza" > A : "Gretl list" > Copie à : > Objet : Re: [Gretl-users] genr dummy on annual data > > > artur bala escribió: > > Hello,

[Gretl-users] database problem

2010-07-30 Thread artur bala
Hi Allin, I saved a .gdt file as a gretl database. When I wanted to open the database (.bin file) gretl pops up the error window "data error" and couldn't load it. best, artur -- ***** Artur BALA Development Economist, Consultant Phone: +21

Re: [Gretl-users] database problem

2010-07-31 Thread artur bala
> Both points are now fixed in CVS and the > snapshots for Windows and OS X. You can drag and drop databases > onto gretl (native gretl ones, RATS 4 or PcGive bn7), and in the > event that you drop a file that gretl cannot handle you should get > a more useful error message. > > Allin Cottrell Dea

[Gretl-users] on graph labels

2010-08-01 Thread artur bala
Dear Allin In a time series graph, could it be (easily) possible for the X-axis to show time labels (i.e. years / months / quarters ...) instead of numbers ? The trouble with the last is that when you zoom into a particular area of the plot, the X-axis displays values that give little intuiti

Re: [Gretl-users] Deleting variables

2010-08-09 Thread artur bala
renumbered. For example, once you delete the 1st variable (whose ID is 5) the 8th variable becomes the 7th. Better if you only save the variable you need as Leandro pointed out. Best, artur -- ***** Artur BALA Development Economist, Consultant Phone: +216 24

Re: [Gretl-users] Deleting variables

2010-08-09 Thread artur bala
Le 09/08/2010 19:01, artur bala a écrit : > Le 09/08/2010 18:31, Leandro Zipitria a écrit : >> Quick answer: just save the variable you need in a new database (they >> are very few). >> >> For example, I would like to use the series 5, 8, 37 and, 98 and >&g

[Gretl-users] sub-sampling problem

2010-08-10 Thread artur bala
Hi allin, I was running the following script and gretl reports an error I don't actually understand. gretl version 1.9.1cvs Current session: 2010-08-10 15:52 ? open "C:\Program Files\gretl\data\misc\hamilton.gdt" Read datafile C:\Program Files\gretl\data\misc\hamilton.gdt periodicity: 12, maxobs:

[Gretl-users] on cusum test

2010-08-17 Thread artur bala
Hi, I'm trying to do the CUSUM test through separated regressions but the result differs slightly froms gretl's cusum command. I can't see where the trick is... Any suggestion? cheers, artur null Une messagerie gratuite, garantie à vie et des services en plus, ça vous tente ? Je crée ma boîte

[Gretl-users] translation (lost in)

2010-08-18 Thread artur bala
quot;Sample/Set frequency, startobs\"./ I checked the po.file in 3 other languages and found an identical translation of that. What does it stand for? cheers, :-) artur -- ***** Artur BALA Development Economist, Consultant Phone: +216 24 71 00 80 E-mail

[Gretl-users] on tabulations

2010-08-24 Thread artur bala
Dear Allin, It seems that in the model table, the tabulations for the estimation method, are slightly misplaced (please, see attached). cheers, artur * Artur BALA Development Economist, Consultant Phone: +216 24 71 00 80 E-mail:artur.bala.tn(a

[Gretl-users] gretl new translation

2010-08-27 Thread artur bala
Dear Allin, What do you think of having an albanian version of gretl? Regards, Artur ** Artur BALA Development Economist, Consultant email: artur.bala.tn(a)gmail.com phone: +216 24 71 00 80 skype: artur.bala.tn **

Re: [Gretl-users] gretl new translation

2010-08-27 Thread artur bala
Just waiting for further details to make it available. Thanx a bunch, cheers, artur -- ****** Artur BALA Development Economist, Consultant email: artur.bala.tn(a)gmail.com phone: +216 24 71 00 80 skype: artur.bala.tn **

[Gretl-users] Table icon disappearing

2010-09-01 Thread artur bala
language interface determines the way gretl works !?!?!?! cheers :-) artur ** Artur BALA Development Economist, Consultant email: artur.bala.tn(a)gmail.com phone: +216 24 71 00 80 skype: artur.bala.tn **

Re: [Gretl-users] Table icon disappearing

2010-09-01 Thread artur bala
Le 01/09/2010 19:15, Allin Cottrell a écrit : > On Wed, 1 Sep 2010, artur bala wrote: >> I noticed a strange behaviour while using the albanian translation: when >> one wants to clear the Model table through the pop-up menu, the Table >> icon simply disappears. > Ah, gretl

[Gretl-users] bug on graphing VAR inverse root

2010-09-06 Thread artur bala
Hi Allin, I think there's a bug here: If I try to "Freeze data labels" on the VAR roots graph it just comes out a topsy-turvy line! best, artur -- ** Artur BALA Development Economist, Consultant email: artur.bala.tn(a)gmail.com phone: +216 24

[Gretl-users] bug on graphing VAR inverse root

2010-09-06 Thread artur bala
Hi Allin, I think there's a bug here: If I try to "Freeze data labels" on the VAR roots graph it just comes out a topsy-turvy line! best, artur -- ** Artur BALA Development Economist, Consultant email: artur.bala.tn(a)gmail.com phone: +

[Gretl-users] gnuplot into a loop

2010-09-08 Thread artur bala
n. It's something going wrong there? cheers, artur -- ** Artur BALA Development Economist, Consultant email: artur.bala.tn(a)gmail.com phone: +216 24 71 00 80 skype: artur.bala.tn ** Dear Allin, I have a panel

Re: [Gretl-users] Question on show command with gnuplot object in script mode

2010-10-25 Thread artur bala
Well, you just need to add the "--output="display" flag and it works fine. *nulldata 100* *x=normal(0,1)* *y=normal(0,1)* *grf1 <- gnuplot x --output="display* *--time-series --with-lines* *grf1.show* Best regards, artur -- **

Re: [Gretl-users] Question on show command with gnuplot object in script mode

2010-10-25 Thread artur bala
> *grf1 <- gnuplot x --output="display* *--time-series --with-lines* > Oh, sorry! I've forgot the ending quotes. :-[ *grf1 <- gnuplot x --output="display"* *--time-series --with-lines* That will work now! ****** Artur BALA Developm

[Gretl-users] graphs: not really a bug...

2010-12-20 Thread artur bala
Hi Allin, I'm not sure I can even call it a bug, but after having zoomed in a graphic and used "replace full view" option, the graph window's lower-left corner still shows the old coordinates instead of the new ones. regards, artur -- ****** Ar

Re: [Gretl-users] print pmean just once

2011-03-08 Thread artur bala
an of WAGE for unit 1 printf "Proportion of sales (in percentage) %g \n", mean(WAGE) # restore the full sample smpl --full/ -- ****** Artur BALA development economist, consultant phone: +216 22 99 73 44 skype: artur.bala.tn **

Re: [Gretl-users] Dealing with heteroskedasticity

2011-03-21 Thread artur bala
adratic function of > the regressors, the hsk estimator is more efficient than OLS. > > Allin Cottrell > > > ___ > Gretl-users mailing list > Gretl-users(a)lists.wfu.edu <mailto:Gretl-users(a)lists.wfu.edu> > h

Re: [Gretl-users] Resampling time series data

2011-03-29 Thread artur bala
Le 29/03/2011 18:46, Anutechia Asongu a écrit : > To put my point plain, my main dataset is "daily", but I'll like to > work with weekly observations. > Try to compact the daily data onto weekly data (Menu: Data -> Compact data) artur Le 29/03/2011 18:46, Anutechia Asongu a écrit :

[Gretl-users] re-organizing panel data

2011-04-13 Thread artur bala
works fine. regards, artur -- Artur BALA development economist, consultant phone: +216 22 99 73 44 skype: artur.bala.tn email: artur.bala.tn(a)gmail.com *

[Gretl-users] panel plot

2011-04-13 Thread artur bala
Dear Allin, It seems like in the "panel plot" window, both options on boxplot do produce the same graph. Best, artur -- Artur BALA development economist, consultant phone:+216 22 99 73 44 skype:artur.bala.tn email: artur.bala.tn(a

[Gretl-users] a somewhat peculiar question

2011-04-22 Thread artur bala
Dear Allin, I was asked by some colleagues of mine about the praying boy in the gretl's icon. What does it stand for? Is there any connection with some statistical issues? Do you think a more, let's say, econometric-inspired icon will increase the chances of gretl to get noticed? Best regards,

Re: [Gretl-users] Excel

2011-05-31 Thread Artur Bala
Le 31/05/2011 12:06, Daniela Tatiane Santos a écrit : > I would like to plot the coefficients of the regression in the Excel, > but I don´t know how to do this. I don´t know if I could use any X > values or if I might use values provided by Gretl. Does anybody know > how to proceed? /Hi Daniela,

Re: [Gretl-users] Excel

2011-05-31 Thread Artur Bala
On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 8:31 AM, Artur Bala <mailto:artur.bala(a)laposte.net>> wrote: > > Le 31/05/2011 12:06, Daniela Tatiane Santos a écrit : >> I would like to plot the coefficients of the regression in the >> Excel, but I don´t know how to do this. I don´t

Re: [Gretl-users] VAR with subset restrictions

2011-08-22 Thread artur bala
> Hi all, > Is there a quick way to code the following without individually > specifying each right hand side lag? > > Y = Y(-1) Y(-2) X(-1) X(-2) > X = Y(-1) Y(-2) X(-1) X(-2) > You can use the lists, eg. /list ylist = Y(-1 to -2) X(-1 to -2)/ Hi all, Is there a quick

Re: [Gretl-users] Frequency distribution table

2011-08-26 Thread artur bala
> > How to set other number of class for frequency distribution table? Through the "freq" command this is not feasible. However, through the GUI you can easily find "the number of bins" option and enter the number of classes you need. Best, artur

Re: [Gretl-users] bug-hunting time

2011-09-06 Thread artur bala
Hello Allin, This is not actually a bug but may be you'll find it useful to point out. I'm currenty handling a large census database and: 1. I observed some limitations through the GUI: a. adding new observations is limited to 100 00 obs; b. creating a new data set is limited to

[Gretl-users] a rather naive question on time-consuming tasks ?

2011-09-07 Thread artur bala
loop for i = 1..$nobs --quiet example[i] = x[i] endloop matrix example2 = zeros($nobs,1) loop for i = 1..$nobs --quiet example2[i,1] = x[i] endloop -- Artur BALA development economist, consultant phone: +216 22 99 73 44 skype: artur.bala.tn email: artur.bala.tn(a)gmail.com

Re: [Gretl-users] a rather naive question on time-consuming tasks ?

2011-09-08 Thread artur bala
Thanks Sven, Just a couple of questions. > If you do element-by-element operations, I don't see any reason to > expect higher speed. Ok, it does make sense! But instead, why does it seem to be so much slower ? > Plus, in this case you're mixing series (x) and > matrices (example2). My speculation w

Re: [Gretl-users] a rather naive question on time-consuming tasks ?

2011-09-09 Thread artur bala
Le 09/09/2011 00:57, Allin Cottrell a écrit : > In fact quite a nice speed-up was available here. Things > should look better in current CVS. >> Before: >> ? print tt >> tt (3 x 1) >> >> 1.8 >>7.21 >> 29.04 >> >> After: >> tt (3 x 1) >> >>1.73 >>7.03 >> 28.63 >> >> Not bad at al

[Gretl-users] deleting matrices

2011-09-09 Thread artur bala
As long as the matrices and the series share the same working space, can we manage to delete a couple of matrices (or more) in a one run like we do for series e.g. delete series1 series 2 # this command does work delete matrix1 matrix2 # this command does not Best, artur As long as

[Gretl-users] mixing matrices and series

2011-09-09 Thread artur bala
Hello, This is just for discussion. I used to think that in doing mathematical calculations, the matrices need not to be mixed up with series. For the sake of clarityone can not, let's say multiply a series by a matrix. Is that right? Well, in the following script this kind of multiplication wor

Re: [Gretl-users] replace with - FYI

2011-09-10 Thread artur bala
Hi Alessandro, Just FYI > I must create a new time series y(t), with 250 observations, resampling with > replacement the elements of x. I have used the command > > genr y = replace(x) Are you sure that's "replace" and not "resample" ? ;) > but gretl creates y(t) with 200 observations. That's normal

Re: [Gretl-users] replace with - FYI

2011-09-10 Thread artur bala
Le 10/09/2011 12:15, Sven Schreiber a écrit : > Yes, but he could do the resampling twice and take the first 200 obs > from the first series, and the final 50 obs from the second series, > and glue the parts together to get a 250-obs series. Is this what you mean Sven ? nulldata 200 series x = n

Re: [Gretl-users] bug-hunting time - scalars window

2011-09-13 Thread artur bala
dear allin, there's a strange behaviour of the scalars window (see a screen capture /http://www.artbala.net/scalars.jpg/) I run a script which opens a dataset and produces some scalars. Then I open the scalars windows to view the output. Without closing the scalars windows I re-run the script twi

[Gretl-users] graphs in functions

2011-09-19 Thread artur bala
Hello Allin, Is it possible to plot graphs as part of a function ? Best, artur

[Gretl-users] maybe a bug with graphs

2011-09-19 Thread artur bala
Hi, I'm having some troubles with graphs' GUI zoom command : After a 1st zoom I replace the full view and make a 2nd zoom but the result seems not consistent. (axes happen to be zoomed out rather than zoomed in). Best, artut

Re: [Gretl-users] maybe a bug with graphs

2011-09-19 Thread artur bala
>> After a 1st zoom I replace the full view and make a 2nd zoom but the >> result seems not consistent. >> (axes happen to be zoomed out rather than zoomed in). > If you find this is reproducible, could you give some more details? > I'm not > able to make this happen myself. Oh yes, I see where t

[Gretl-users] on gnuplot command

2011-10-03 Thread artur bala
Hi, I'm not sure what's going on there, but i'm using the following gnuplot line command inside a function. The plot comes out like a beauty but gretl pops an error message "Failed to parse gnuplot file". By the way, can someone tell me how to break the following command into 2-3 lines (I tried

Re: [Gretl-users] on gnuplot command

2011-10-03 Thread artur bala
Thank you a lot ! It works fine! Artur > On Mon, 3 Oct 2011, artur bala wrote: > >> Hi, >> I'm not sure what's going on there, but i'm using the following gnuplot line >> command inside a function. The plot comes out like a beauty but gretl pops an >>

[Gretl-users] on loop command

2011-10-03 Thread artur bala
Hi, Is it possible to make a backward loop work ? I mean :loop i = 1..$nobs I'm going through a matrix hunting for a particular value that I know should be somewhere "at the bottom" of the matrix Hi, Is it possible to make a backward loop work ? I mean : loop i = 1..$nobs I'm go

Re: [Gretl-users] on loop command

2011-10-03 Thread artur bala
Le 03/10/2011 15:56, Sven Schreiber a écrit : > Am 10/03/2011 04:47 PM, schrieb artur bala: >> Hi, >> Is it possible to make a backward loop work ? I mean :loop i = 1..$nobs > well this doesn't look backward to me !? You're right! I meant : loop i = $nobs..1 :-[ >

Re: [Gretl-users] bug-hunting time : vecm

2011-10-04 Thread artur bala
Hi, After running the "hamilton.inp" script I tried to plot the response of p to s from the the hamilton model menu but gretl comes out with a "Data error" message . Otherwise, when I checked the "include bootstrap confidence interval" everything looks fine. Best, artur

Re: [Gretl-users] a rather naive question on time-consuming tasks ?

2011-10-05 Thread artur bala
Le 09/09/2011 10:29, artur bala a écrit : > On my 4-year old machine (Core Duo T2450(a)2Ghz, > 2gb ram), it takes 0.468 seconds for 100 000 observations and 3,931 for > 1 000 000 observations. It's simply UNBELIEVABLE. Dear Allin, Something weird is still going on there. It worked a

Re: [Gretl-users] VAR estimation method for the Johansen test

2011-10-06 Thread artur bala
Le 05/10/2011 22:03, Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti a écrit : > but I don't think that anyboby has ever complained about the "vecm" > command being slow, right? indeed it isn't! but plotting the combined impulse responses with their confidence error is somewhat slow! Maybe this is more a gnuplot conc

Re: [Gretl-users] freq command

2011-10-07 Thread artur bala
Le 07/10/2011 07:50, Annaert Jan a écrit : > In script mode, the freq command does not produce the graph that is > shown in the interactive mode. However, in some cases it may be useful > to have this feature as well in script mode. Is it difficult to add an > --output=display option to the comm

Re: [Gretl-users] freq command

2011-10-07 Thread artur bala
Le 07/10/2011 09:11, artur bala a écrit : > Basically, adding the --output flag into a script does produce the > same effect as in the comand line. Ops, indeed it doesn't work for the freq command ;) Artur

[Gretl-users] on gini index: maybe a gnuplot issue

2011-10-08 Thread artur bala
Dear Allin I'm calculating the Gini index on a very huge dataset. While in the command line the operation hardly takes a couple of seconds, through the GUI (Variable -> Gini coeff) it lasts quite long and gretl crashes with the following message error. Well, maybe that's a gnuplot issue I guess!

Re: [Gretl-users] on gini index: maybe a gnuplot issue

2011-10-08 Thread artur bala
> It doesn't actually crash, does it? Just fails to display the Lorenz > curve graph? well, it did crash...without displaying the graph! > That's fixed in CVS: we down-sample if > there are too many points for gnuplot to handle. That's good! With the new CVS gretl doesn't crash anymore but fails

Re: [Gretl-users] on gini index: maybe a gnuplot issue

2011-10-08 Thread artur bala
>> That's good! With the new CVS gretl doesn't crash anymore > The update was only in the CVS code repository, not in the > snapshot files So why did it stop to crash ?!?! Mm! :-\ > -- but the snapshots are now updated. Anyway, now it works perfectly and very fast: it takes some 6 seconds for

Re: [Gretl-users] on gini index: maybe a gnuplot issue

2011-10-09 Thread artur bala
Le 09/10/2011 21:18, Sven Schreiber a écrit : > Am 09.10.2011 18:48, schrieb Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti: >> On Sun, 9 Oct 2011, Allin Cottrell wrote: >> You probably thought about that yourself, but are there other contexts where gretl could give gnuplot more than it can handle? >>> Yes, t

[Gretl-users] crosstabulation output

2011-10-11 Thread artur bala
Hi everybody, I'm computing some poverty measures on different subpopulation. Before I reinvent the wheel, is there a function to produce a cross tabulation output like this one (including the strings)? /Group1Group2Group3 Total Measure1...

Re: [Gretl-users] crosstabulation output

2011-10-12 Thread artur bala
>> > I'm computing some poverty measures on different subpopulation. >> > Before I reinvent the wheel, is there a function to produce a cross >> > tabulation output like this one (including the strings)? > Have you looked at the "xtab" command? Well, I apologize Allin. I made a confusion there.

[Gretl-users] on gini calculation

2011-10-12 Thread artur bala
Dear Allin, I'm doing some calculation for the gini index and I noticed some small differences between the gretl's built-in command and the step-by-step calculation on P and L. Any suggestion? Best, artur gretl 0,414005424*073137* without (0,0) 0,414005424*256711* including (0,0) 0,

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