[Gretl-users] Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: error evaluating 'if'

2024-09-07 Thread Summers, Peter
attachments > from a Trusted Sender.*** > >> On 07/09/2024 11:18, Sven Schreiber wrote: >>> Am 06.09.2024 um 22:53 schrieb Summers, Peter: >>> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> When trying to use the console to create a new variable, I get an error >

[Gretl-users] error evaluating 'if'

2024-09-06 Thread Summers, Peter
Hi all, When trying to use the console to create a new variable, I get an error message after typing "if (female == 1)" saying "error evaluating 'if'". I've also tried it with a script and get the same result. This is on Windows, latest snapshot (office desktop) and also with the previous win64

[Gretl-users] Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: bug in test stat calculator

2024-09-03 Thread Summers, Peter
gt; Am 03.09.2024 um 17:54 schrieb Summers, Peter: > > Ok, I’ve sorted it out. It’s not a bug after all, but there is a typo in the > documentation. Everything works if the restriction is (female = 0), but not > with (female == 0). The documentation specifies “==” in the “var2 op val” >

[Gretl-users] Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: bug in test stat calculator

2024-09-03 Thread Summers, Peter
– I think my students will really like it! Cheers, Peter From: Sven Schreiber Sent: Tuesday, September 3, 2024 11:42 AM To: gretl-users@gretlml.univpm.it Subject: [Gretl-users] Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: bug in test stat calculator Am 03.09.2024 um 17:36 schrieb Summers, Peter: Hi Sven, Yes, I typed

[Gretl-users] Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: bug in test stat calculator

2024-09-03 Thread Summers, Peter
nder.*** Am 03.09.2024 um 16:56 schrieb Summers, Peter: Hi all, I’m trying to follow the sub-sample restriction example in the help menu for the test statistic calculator for comparing 2 means. I select the same variable in both slots and specify the restrictions, but when I hit the enter key the

[Gretl-users] bug in test stat calculator

2024-09-03 Thread Summers, Peter
Hi all, I'm trying to follow the sub-sample restriction example in the help menu for the test statistic calculator for comparing 2 means. I select the same variable in both slots and specify the restrictions, but when I hit the enter key the mean, std. dev. & sample size boxes get cleared out.

[Gretl-users] Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: gretl crash

2024-08-30 Thread Summers, Peter
26 Aug 2024, Summers, Peter wrote: > > > > > One of my students provoked a gretl crash after a seemingly > > > successful installation. She had gretl open and loaded a data set > > > by clicking on it in her browser's download window. It opened > > >

[Gretl-users] Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: gretl crash

2024-08-26 Thread Summers, Peter
Trusted Sender.*** On Mon, 26 Aug 2024, Summers, Peter wrote: > One of my students provoked a gretl crash after a seemingly successful > installation. She had gretl open and loaded a data set by clicking on > it in her browser's download window. It opened fine, but when she > tr

[Gretl-users] Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Stock-Watson scripts missing

2024-08-26 Thread Summers, Peter
updated. Allin On Mon, Aug 26, 2024 at 12:29 PM Summers, Peter mailto:psumm...@highpoint.edu>> wrote: Hi all, I was having my students install gretl and the Stock-Watson data & scripts, but the link to stock_watson_scripts.zip gives a “Not Found” error. I can work around this but t

[Gretl-users] Stock-Watson scripts missing

2024-08-26 Thread Summers, Peter
Hi all, I was having my students install gretl and the Stock-Watson data & scripts, but the link to stock_watson_scripts.zip gives a "Not Found" error. I can work around this but thought I'd better let you know. Cheers, Peter Dr. Peter M. Summers| Associate Professor of Economics Faculty Advis

[Gretl-users] Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Sourceforge problems?

2024-08-15 Thread Summers, Peter
2024 at 1:03 PM Summers, Peter mailto:psumm...@highpoint.edu>> wrote: Hi all, I’m unable to download the latest Windows snapshot or zip file from Sourceforge. The download screen appears as usual but nothing else happens. I suspect my university’s restricting what I can install unsuperv

[Gretl-users] Sourceforge problems?

2024-08-14 Thread Summers, Peter
Hi all, I'm unable to download the latest Windows snapshot or zip file from Sourceforge. The download screen appears as usual but nothing else happens. I suspect my university's restricting what I can install unsupervised, but I wanted to make sure it's not a SF issue. Is anyone else having thi

[Gretl-users] Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: 'summary' request

2023-03-25 Thread Summers, Peter
On Fri, 24 Mar 2023, Summers, Peter wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a feature request for the "summary" command, and a related > documentation issue. Currently the $result accessor isn't produced if > the -by=byvar option is given. How difficult would it be to change

[Gretl-users] Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: panplot question

2023-01-27 Thread Summers, Peter
Ah, that makes sense. Thanks, Allin! PS Sent from my iPad > On Jan 27, 2023, at 1:32 PM, Cottrell, Allin wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 27, 2023 at 11:33 AM Summers, Peter > wrote: >> >> Artur & Sven, >> >> Thanks for your help! I'm using the Penn Wo

[Gretl-users] Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: panplot question

2023-01-27 Thread Summers, Peter
27.01.2023 um 17:33 schrieb Summers, Peter: Artur & Sven, Thanks for your help! I'm using the Penn World Tables. Gretl correctly recognized it as a panel, but I hadn't set the dataset structure. When I did that, it worked...almost. Running the attached script, the first plot still ha

[Gretl-users] Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: panplot question

2023-01-27 Thread Summers, Peter
Sender.*** Am 27.01.23 um 15:05 schrieb Summers, Peter: > Hi folks, > > I’m creating a couple graphs using panplot, and I’d like to have the > x-axis labels be the date (year), rather than the time period number. > Is there a way to do that? (I realize that may be a gnuplot question.)

[Gretl-users] Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Some suggestions on the "Number of cases ’correctly predicted'" from a logit/probit outputs

2023-01-11 Thread Summers, Peter
> On Jan 11, 2023, at 1:20 AM, Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti > wrote: > > ***This email is from an external source. Only open links and attachments > from a Trusted Sender.*** > >> On Sat, 17 Dec 2022, Fred Engst wrote: >> >> Hi Jack, Allin, Sven and all others on the gretl team, >> As you know

[Gretl-users] Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Stock-Watson data & scripts

2022-08-17 Thread Summers, Peter
ents from a Trusted Sender.*** On Tue, Aug 16, 2022 at 4:52 PM Cottrell, Allin wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 16, 2022 at 6:07 AM Summers, Peter wrote: >> >> The Windows executable stock_watson.exe seems to be slightly broken. >> During the installation process, the default t

[Gretl-users] Re: [EXTERNAL] Applied panel data analysis books

2022-06-13 Thread Summers, Peter
Hi there, This list is intended for questions/comments/discussion about Gretl, not econometrics in general. I’d suggest you look for a forum more suited to the latter. Good luck! PS Sent from my iPad On Jun 13, 2022, at 12:16 PM, 3J LEMA <3jl...@gmail.com> wrote: ***This email is from an ex

[Gretl-users] Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: How to import data from the server, like the "Yahoo_get" function package does, but for St.Louis FRED data?

2022-05-18 Thread Summers, Peter
I also think there are instructions on the FRED site for accessing it via API. I’ve never tried any flavor of API, but gretl has that ability (right?). PS Sent from my iPad > On May 18, 2022, at 3:23 PM, Sven Schreiber wrote: > > ***This email is from an external source. Only open links and

[Gretl-users] Re: [EXTERNAL] Update "string_utils" package

2022-04-28 Thread Summers, Peter
Hi Artur, I haven't had time to check yet, but it seems there may be a conflict here with the find() function in the matlab_utilities package. Cheers, Peter -Original Message- From: atecon Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2022 5:14 AM To: Gretl list Subject: [EXTERNAL] [Gretl-users] Update

[Gretl-users] Re: split dependent variable: looking for a test

2020-12-01 Thread Summers, Peter
Hi Allin, Your logic sounds similar to that of the PE Test (MacKinnon, White & Davidson, 1983, J of Econometrics) for comparing models with y vs log(y). I hadn't heard about it until a couple weeks ago while I was teaching about LM tests. Here's a link to the R petest() function: https://www.r

[Gretl-users] matlab_utilities updated

2019-07-11 Thread Summers, Peter
Fellow gretl users, There's a new version of my matlab_utilities function available. It now includes an "eye()" function that mimics the Matlab/Octave version. In particular it allows for eye(r,c), appending rows or columns of zeros to an identity matrix if r > c or r < c, respectively. Note th

[Gretl-users] Re: Article on gretl

2019-06-04 Thread Summers , Peter
Great timing, Artur -- I just finished reading your paper. Nice work! PS > -Original Message- > From: Artur Tarassow > Sent: Tuesday, June 4, 2019 2:12 PM > To: gretl-users(a)gretlml.univpm.it > Subject: [Gretl-users] Article on gretl > > Hi all, > > let me do some self-advertising, pl

[Gretl-users] Re: More minor bugs or errors (Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti) & (Allin Cottrell)

2019-05-31 Thread Summers , Peter
> -Original Message- > > On Fri, 31 May 2019, Fred Engst wrote: > > > >> #5: The sorting issue is only true in the famous mroz dataset that is > >> used by both Wooldridge’s “Introductory Econometrics A Modern > >> Approach" textbook and HIll-Grifit-Lim’s “Principles of Econometrics" > text

[Gretl-users] Re: help | collinearity option missing under tests tab

2019-05-01 Thread Summers , Peter
Hi Rochan, Look for the “Collinearity” option in the Analysis menu. Best, Peter From: Rochan Mathur [mailto:rochanmathur(a)gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2019 3:19 PM To: gretl-users(a)gretlml.univpm.it Subject: [Gretl-users] help | collinearity option missing under tests tab Dear Team,

Re: [Gretl-users] Threshold in Logit/Probit Models

2019-04-07 Thread Summers , Peter
Hi Periklis, In general, the $yhat accessor contains the predicted values of the dependent variable from the last model estimated. As Sven mentioned, for logit & probit these are estimated probabilities. Could you provide more context for the error you’re getting? I hope the roc package is use

Re: [Gretl-users] Ordinary least squares as formula

2019-03-28 Thread Summers , Peter
Hi Philippe, After you’ve estimated a regression, click on the File menu in the model window and select “view as equation”. That’ll give you the coefficients, standard errors, sample size & R-squared. I hope this helps, Peter [High Point University logo] Dr. Peter M. Summers | Associate Profes

Re: [Gretl-users] gretl 2019a released

2019-01-25 Thread Summers , Peter
Hi Periklis, You’re looking at the command reference. If you look further down in the list of options in the Help menu, you should see (among others) an entry titled “Gretl + SVM”, which is a pdf document. Best, Peter [High Point University logo] Dr. Peter M. Summers | Associate Professor of E

Re: [Gretl-users] [off-topic] and yet it is about Gretl

2019-01-23 Thread Summers , Peter
Outstanding! Congratulations all around!! PS From: gretl-users-bounces(a)lists.wfu.edu [mailto:gretl-users-bounces(a)lists.wfu.edu] On Behalf Of Hélio Guilherme Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2019 4:48 PM To: Gretl list Subject: [Gretl-users] [off-topic] and yet it is about Gretl Hi, This Januar

Re: [Gretl-users] gretl crash

2018-08-09 Thread Summers , Peter
Great, thanks! Sent from my iPad > On Aug 9, 2018, at 6:07 PM, Allin Cottrell wrote: > >> On Thu, 9 Aug 2018, Summers, Peter wrote: >> >> Hi Allin, >> >> Sorry to bug you, but have the snapshots been updated with this fix yet? > > They're no

Re: [Gretl-users] gretl crash

2018-08-09 Thread Summers , Peter
4:09 PM > To: Gretl list > Subject: Re: [Gretl-users] gretl crash > > On Mon, 6 Aug 2018, Summers, Peter wrote: > > > While writing up some teaching notes, I discovered that the following > > causes Gretl to crash: > > > > > > open credscore.gdt > >

[Gretl-users] gretl crash

2018-08-06 Thread Summers , Peter
Hi all, While writing up some teaching notes, I discovered that the following causes Gretl to crash: open credscore.gdt summary --simple --by=Selfempl On further review, it seems to be the --by option that's the problem. This is on Windows 7, Gretl 2018b built 2018-03-23 (64-bit). Best, PS

Re: [Gretl-users] Panel data

2018-06-08 Thread Summers , Peter
Hi Silviana, Your question about heteroskedasticity persisting even after you check the "robust standard error" box is actually more about econometrics in general, and not gretl-specific. Such questions are generally not what this list is for. That said... The robust std error procedure (in wha

Re: [Gretl-users] VECM and IRF interpretation

2018-04-30 Thread Summers , Peter
Lars, Your questions are about VARs in general, not about Gretl. This list is for questions specific to Gretl, not general questions about econometric methods. If you’re asking about how Gretl computes things like IRFs, for example, that’s covered in chapter 29 of the user’s guide. For question

Re: [Gretl-users] bug? with string substitution

2017-12-17 Thread Summers , Peter
> On Dec 17, 2017, at 5:24 PM, Allin Cottrell wrote: > >> This worked fine for me when I wrote it. However currently with the latest >> Windows snapshot, after the first time through the loop, gretl stores >> successive data sets under the name "@fname.gdt". The string is being >> updated prop

[Gretl-users] bug? with string substitution

2017-12-17 Thread Summers , Peter
Hi all, I was revisiting some code I wrote a few years ago, and came across what is at least changed (and unexpected) behavior. I have a script that loops over various numbers of possible structural breaks, and does some MCMC sampling for each value. I want to write the mcmc draws to separate d

Re: [Gretl-users] new GUI convenience: index series

2017-12-08 Thread Summers , Peter
Very cool, thanks Allin! I just combined this with your new dash-type line styles and everything works great (Win 7). Peter > -Original Message- > From: gretl-users-bounces(a)lists.wfu.edu [mailto:gretl-users- > bounces(a)lists.wfu.edu] On Behalf Of Allin Cottrell > Sent: Thursday, Decem

[Gretl-users] help on VECM (was "pca" vs "eigengen)

2017-08-23 Thread Summers , Peter
Dear Jan, First of all, you should start a new thread (use a relevant subject line) for questions like this, rather than replying to a message unrelated to your question. To your question, chapters 29 and 30 of the Gretl User’s Guide would be a good place for you to start. I hope this helps,

Re: [Gretl-users] typo in User's guide

2017-07-26 Thread Summers , Peter
Ok, I'm not used to thinking in terms of %f & %g but your explanation makes sense. To clarify, the '#' shouldn't be there, right? PS Sent from my iPad > On Jul 26, 2017, at 5:38 PM, Allin Cottrell wrote: > >> On Wed, 26 Jul 2017, Summers, Peter wrote: &g

[Gretl-users] typo in User's guide

2017-07-26 Thread Summers , Peter
Hi all, I've come across a typo on p. 80 in the user's guide. In discussing how to access elements of an array, there's the following example: # for M an array of matrices printf "\n%#12.5\n", M[1] The second line should be printf "\n%12.5f\n", M[1] PS [High Point University logo] Dr. Peter M

Re: [Gretl-users] tabbed foreign-script editor

2017-07-22 Thread Summers , Peter
This is great, thanks Allin! PS -Original Message- From: gretl-users-bounces(a)lists.wfu.edu [mailto:gretl-users-bounces(a)lists.wfu.edu] On Behalf Of Allin Cottrell Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2017 10:02 AM To: Gretl users Subject: [Gretl-users] tabbed foreign-script editor The first no

Re: [Gretl-users] Gretl for machine learning

2017-05-03 Thread Summers , Peter
> bounces(a)lists.wfu.edu] On Behalf Of Sven Schreiber > Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2017 8:28 AM > To: Gretl list > Subject: Re: [Gretl-users] Gretl for machine learning > > Hi Peter, > is there anything in your collection that could become a package and isn't > already? Hi Sven, I don't really ha

Re: [Gretl-users] Gretl for machine learning

2017-05-03 Thread Summers , Peter
I don't know anything about neural networks, but I've ported lots of Matlab code into hansl and found it generally very straightforward to do. Of course as Stefano suggests there's also gretl's foreign language interface with Octave. Cheers, Peter Sent from my iPad > On May 3, 2017, at 4:01 AM

[Gretl-users] missing function reference

2017-01-20 Thread Summers , Peter
Hi folks, I just downloaded the latest Windows snapshot, and the function reference files (gretl_gui_fnref.en and gretl_cli_fnref.en) are missing from the installation package. I've copied them from an older installation file, but I thought I'd better let you know. PS [High Point University l

Re: [Gretl-users] centering series and lists

2016-11-16 Thread Summers , Peter
I wrote the following for my class this semester and they seem to work. No doubt they could be improved... /* Functions for centering & standardizing a list of series */ function list center(list L) strings N = varnames(L) list retlist = null loop foreach i L --quiet string

Re: [Gretl-users] GUI points

2016-11-11 Thread Summers , Peter
My first thought is that "influential observations" should be part of "Analysis" instead of "Tests". My second thought is that 'Collinearity' should be too. It's a characteristic of the data, as is/are influential observations, which seems like analysis to me. fwiw, PS Sent from my iPad > On

Re: [Gretl-users] Fan chart

2016-09-19 Thread Summers , Peter
Very cool, thanks Jack! PS > -Original Message- > From: gretl-users-bounces(a)lists.wfu.edu [mailto:gretl-users- > bounces(a)lists.wfu.edu] On Behalf Of Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti > Sent: Monday, September 19, 2016 1:08 PM > To: Gretl users mailing list > Subject: [Gretl-users] Fan chart >

Re: [Gretl-users] deleting variables

2016-09-03 Thread Summers , Peter
the "cleanup" to the next user. However this behavior's also inconsistent with the documentation regarding "delete thislist" where "thislist" is a named list, so I thought it might be a bug. PS Sent from my iPad On Sep 3, 2016, at 11:04 AM, Allin Cottrell mai

[Gretl-users] deleting variables

2016-09-02 Thread Summers , Peter
Hi all, I've got a script that generates a bunch of auxiliary series that I don't want to keep in the dataset, so I put "delete thislist thatlist (etc.)" as the last line in the script. When I run it, I get a message (in the output) saying no series were deleted. When I try to delete them manua

Re: [Gretl-users] installing data sets on Macs

2016-08-21 Thread Summers , Peter
Thanks Berend & Allin! I'm so used to using the self-installers (I'm on windows) that I didn't even think about other options. PS Sent from my iPad > On Aug 21, 2016, at 2:24 PM, Berend Hasselman wrote: > > >> On 21 Aug 2016, at 17:56, Summers, Peter

[Gretl-users] installing data sets on Macs

2016-08-21 Thread Summers , Peter
Hi all, I'm hoping one or more of you Mac-users out there can give me a quick step-by-step guide to installing the textbook data sets on a Mac. A couple of my students have asked about it, and since I haven't used a Mac since about 1986, I'm not much help. Thanks in advance, PS Sent from my i

Re: [Gretl-users] about arrays as argument of yahoo_get

2016-08-18 Thread Summers , Peter
Hi Guido, The problem is where your "nulldata" command is. In the first version, it wipes out the array declaration. You should either put that command first or use the --preserve option for it (ie, "nulldata 10 --preserve") which will keep previously declared variables (I think arrays are pres

Re: [Gretl-users] Drop-down menu issues

2016-06-19 Thread Summers , Peter
Re screencasting, have you tried Jing? PS Sent from my iPad On Jun 19, 2016, at 1:15 PM, Hélio Guilherme mailto:helioxentric(a)gmail.com>> wrote: I don't know about the drop-down menus (can't test it right now). Maybe would be important to know if you are using GTK 2 or GTK 3, and Gnome or KD

Re: [Gretl-users] odd behavior of "diff"

2016-06-14 Thread Summers , Peter
y 19, 2016 at 6:06 PM, Summers, Peter mailto:psummers(a)highpoint.edu>> wrote: Dear all, I’ve run across something strange when using diff() in a loop. Given a series with missing values, Gretl seems to be “recycling” values from the previous loop iteration. The following script illustr

Re: [Gretl-users] odd behavior of "diff"

2016-05-19 Thread Summers , Peter
Hi Sven, Thanks, this provides more information! I modified my example script following your suggestions -- see below. > > [This is probably OT, sorry] > Doesn't look that way... > Am 19.05.2016 um 19:06 schrieb Summers, Peter: > > > > list ylist = y1 y2 >

[Gretl-users] odd behavior of "diff"

2016-05-19 Thread Summers , Peter
Dear all, I've run across something strange when using diff() in a loop. Given a series with missing values, Gretl seems to be "recycling" values from the previous loop iteration. The following script illustrates the problem: on the second loop iteration, the series "r" should be missing for th

Re: [Gretl-users] 2 graphing issues

2016-04-21 Thread Summers , Peter
> -Original Message- > From: gretl-users-bounces(a)lists.wfu.edu [mailto:gretl-users- > bounces(a)lists.wfu.edu] On Behalf Of Allin Cottrell > Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2016 12:16 PM > To: Gretl list > Subject: Re: [Gretl-users] 2 graphing issues > > On Thu, 21

[Gretl-users] 2 graphing issues

2016-04-21 Thread Summers , Peter
Hi all, I've just noticed a couple of things when plotting a series: 1. The "recession bars" option seems to have disappeared (this is a monthly time series data set) 2. If I add a fitted line to the plot (eg, cubic), click OK, then re-open the edit menu and switch back to "none" (

Re: [Gretl-users] string substitution with sprintf?

2016-04-13 Thread Summers , Peter
)lists.wfu.edu] On Behalf Of Allin Cottrell > Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2016 8:33 PM > To: Gretl list > Subject: Re: [Gretl-users] string substitution with sprintf? > > On Tue, 12 Apr 2016, Summers, Peter wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > I'm trying to w

Re: [Gretl-users] string substitution with sprintf?

2016-04-12 Thread Summers , Peter
ptions, > labels etc. It is quite flexible and might be helpful. > > Best, > Artur > >> Am 12.04.2016 um 23:30 schrieb Summers, Peter: >> Hi all, >> >> >> >> I’m trying to write a script that will produce a LaTeX table as output – >> ba

[Gretl-users] string substitution with sprintf?

2016-04-12 Thread Summers , Peter
Hi all, I'm trying to write a script that will produce a LaTeX table as output - basically a customized version of tabprint. Here's the basic idea: matrix doh = mnormal(1,3) # this would be a coefficient vector, e.g. string fmt = "%.4g " string baz = "doh[1]" loop i=2..cols(doh) # build up the

Re: [Gretl-users] new plot --tweaks option

2016-03-23 Thread Summers , Peter
My initial 2 thoughts: 1) I definitely like this better than the curly braces, but 2) How would this work with the plot ... end plot environment? Could that idea be generalized to "boxplot", etc.? So either something like boxplot [various options, literals, etc.] end boxplot Or alternatively

Re: [Gretl-users] PDF of a multivariate normal

2016-02-17 Thread Summers , Peter
at sorted it. Do remember that this wasn't my code, so how Artur's original code worked for him I've no clue. C On 16 February 2016 at 18:50, Summers, Peter mailto:psummers(a)highpoint.edu>> wrote: Clive, The arguments to seq() all have to be integers. Try replacing that line wit

Re: [Gretl-users] PDF of a multivariate normal

2016-02-16 Thread Summers , Peter
> On Tue, 16 Feb 2016, Summers, Peter wrote: > > > Clive, > > > > The arguments to seq() all have to be integers. Try replacing that > > line with “matrix x = seq(-30,32,2)./10” > > Actually, the seq() arguments no longer have to be integers, but that's pretty

Re: [Gretl-users] PDF of a multivariate normal

2016-02-16 Thread Summers , Peter
Clive, The arguments to seq() all have to be integers. Try replacing that line with “matrix x = seq(-30,32,2)./10” PS From: gretl-users-bounces(a)lists.wfu.edu [mailto:gretl-users-bounces(a)lists.wfu.edu] On Behalf Of Clive Nicholas Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2016 1:27 PM To: r.lucchetti(a)u

[Gretl-users] new version of roc package

2016-01-12 Thread Summers , Peter
Fellow gretl users, Artur Tarassow recently drew my attention to a minor bug in the roc (receiver operating characteristics) function package that I wrote a while ago. An error was generated when only 2 predicted series or roc curves were being compared. I've now fixed that, and uploaded a new

Re: [Gretl-users] Information

2015-12-31 Thread Summers , Peter
Habib, On the main gretl page (gretl.sourceforge.net), there's a "Mailing Lists" link on the left. That should tell you what you need to know. Best, Peter Sent from my iPad On Dec 31, 2015, at 11:48 AM, Habib Nawaz mailto:habib_nawaz73(a)yahoo.com>> wrote: Hi G

Re: [Gretl-users] eigensym() issue?

2015-12-11 Thread Summers , Peter
> -Original Message- > From: gretl-users-bounces(a)lists.wfu.edu [mailto:gretl-users- > bounces(a)lists.wfu.edu] On Behalf Of Allin Cottrell > Sent: Friday, December 11, 2015 9:18 AM > To: Gretl list > Subject: Re: [Gretl-users] eigensym() issue? > > On Fri, 11 Dec 2015, Sven Schreiber wro

Re: [Gretl-users] (NBER) recession shading in gretl/gnuplot

2015-11-17 Thread Summers , Peter
> -Original Message- ... > > > > So: I suggest that either the shading should start in the middle of > > the period (middle of March in this example). But given that that may > > not be feasible with gnuplot, I would suggest to adopt the FRED > > convention and start the shading right after

Re: [Gretl-users] strings and filenames

2015-10-26 Thread Summers , Peter
(snip) > > > > According to the user's guide, the "\" character isn't "special" > > within sprintf, but it seems to be causing some problems here. > > Backslash is special in printf and sprintf: it's the escape character, and it > must be > doubled to get a literal backslash. "\%" means a literal

[Gretl-users] strings and filenames

2015-10-26 Thread Summers , Peter
Hi all, I've come across some (to me) odd behavior regarding how sprint handles string substitution. I have several regressions that I'm running in a loop, and I want to save the associated model table in new file each time through. This seems like it should work (on Windows 7, current snapshot

Re: [Gretl-users] Test a significant difference between two slope values

2015-09-28 Thread Summers , Peter
Lorenzo, Do you mean something like this? Y = b0 + b1*x + b2*(D*x) + e, Here D is a dummy variable specifying the group(s) that may have a different regression line (gender, race, etc.). If so, then yes: just estimate the model in gretl and look at the regression output for b2. Or are you tal

Re: [Gretl-users] Number of observations in OLS

2015-09-22 Thread Summers , Peter
Raul, First, have you checked that you actually have values for all your variables for all 20 quarters? Could one of your dummy variables have missing values, for example? Second, are these data sampled at regular (quarterly) intervals? If so, shouldn't you have 40 observations between 1981:1

Re: [Gretl-users] Displaying Fixed Effect Coefficients in Panel Regression

2015-08-06 Thread Summers , Peter
Steven, Have a look in the function reference for the accessor “$ahat”. This “[r]eturns a series containing the estimates of the individual fixed effects (per-unit intercepts).” You might also want to install the function package fe_stats (written by Allin) from the Gretl server. HTH, PS Dr.

Re: [Gretl-users] Loop not automatically ending when error?

2015-08-05 Thread Summers , Peter
Thorsten, Your script runs fine for me on Windows 7 (64-bit, version 1.10.90cvs, build date 2015-07-31). PS > -Original Message- > From: gretl-users-bounces(a)lists.wfu.edu [mailto:gretl-users- > bounces(a)lists.wfu.edu] On Behalf Of Wingenroth, Thorsten > Sent: Wednesday, August 05, 20

Re: [Gretl-users] VARs: Historical FEVD and restrictions

2015-02-24 Thread Summers , Peter
Jack, I ran your example script the other day & it worked beautifully! I haven't had time to play around with it more than that so far. Many thanks for this! PS -Original Message- From: gretl-users-bounces(a)lists.wfu.edu [mailto:gretl-users-bounces(a)lists.wfu.edu] On Behalf Of Riccar

Re: [Gretl-users] (no subject)

2015-02-12 Thread Summers , Peter
Hi Diego, This can certainly be done in gretl, but you'll have to program it yourself. There's no built-in Markov Switching functionality at the moment, and as far as I know nobody's made a function package available for it. As I recall, some of the Gauss code for Kim & Nelson's book deals with

Re: [Gretl-users] Testing Ho: B=0 vs B>0

2015-01-26 Thread Summers , Peter
Sabri, You can do one-sided tests in gretl as in any other package, from the regression output. On Jan 25, 2015 7:26 PM, Sabri Amer wrote: Hello everybody, How is it possible in Gretl to test Ho:B=0 vs B>0 in Y=alpha+Bx+Ut? Thank you Sabri Amer

Re: [Gretl-users] ordered probit

2015-01-07 Thread Summers , Peter
Here's some background: I'm working on a model predicting periods of financial crises; the dependent variable is usually coded 0/1 (no crisis/crisis) so probit/logit is fine. However Romer & Romer (2014) have a new integer-valued classification scheme that ranges from 0 (no crisis) to 15 (extre

Re: [Gretl-users] ordered probit

2015-01-07 Thread Summers , Peter
, 6 Jan 2015, Summers, Peter wrote: > [T]he ordered probit thing is still there. I'm using a script with > generic notation "model4 <- probit y 0 x(-1 to -5)." I get the same > result (lagged y included) via the gui, but running your script works > as expected (no la

Re: [Gretl-users] ordered probit

2015-01-07 Thread Summers , Peter
Hi Sven, Yes, it was marked as discrete. I agree with you that this should be necessary for proper ordered probit behavior. PS Sent from my iPad > On Jan 7, 2015, at 3:50 AM, Sven Schreiber wrote: > >> Am 07.01.2015 um 02:00 schrieb Allin Cottrell: >> >> >> Thanks. After looking at Peter's

Re: [Gretl-users] modeltab error

2015-01-06 Thread Summers , Peter
Actually, my first attempt at resolving the error was to try "modeltab print --output=filename." Something like that does seem more logical to me as a long-term fix. PS Sent from my iPad > On Jan 6, 2015, at 4:13 PM, Allin Cottrell wrote: > >> On Tue, 6 Jan 2015

Re: [Gretl-users] ordered probit

2015-01-06 Thread Summers , Peter
anuary 06, 2015 3:44 PM To: Gretl list Subject: Re: [Gretl-users] ordered probit On Tue, 6 Jan 2015, Summers, Peter wrote: > I've estimated an ordered probit on a panel data set with lagged > regressors. Gretl seems to automatically include the same number of > lags of the depende

[Gretl-users] ordered probit

2015-01-06 Thread Summers , Peter
Folks, This is an econometrics question rather than a Gretl question, so apologies in advance. I've estimated an ordered probit on a panel data set with lagged regressors. Gretl seems to automatically include the same number of lags of the dependent variable, and I'm wondering why that is. So

[Gretl-users] modeltab error

2015-01-06 Thread Summers , Peter
Hi all, According to the 'modeltab' help (and previous forum postings), the following should work: (estimate various models & add them to model table) modeltab show modeltab --output="outputfile.tex" However, the second line generates the error "Command has insufficient arguments." If I try "

Re: [Gretl-users] progress indicator for time-consuming scripts

2014-12-10 Thread Summers , Peter
This works as expected now, Allin. So far at least, I haven't been able to provoke a crash. Pushing the stop button generates a "Execution aborted by request" message. FYI, I discovered this while trying to make sense of what I thought was extremely weird behavior by Gretl. After starting a tim

[Gretl-users] broken "in-progress" wheel?

2014-12-04 Thread Summers , Peter
Folks, Something seems to have happened to the "in-progress" wheel that should appear at the top of an executing script. At least on my Win7 machine with 1.10.0 cvs, build date 12/2, the attached script runs, but there's no wheel (or stop button). TIA, PS [cid:logoimg] Folks,   Somethin

Re: [Gretl-users] Possible redundancy of some function packages?

2014-11-06 Thread Summers , Peter
-Original Message- From: gretl-users-bounces(a)lists.wfu.edu [mailto:gretl-users-bounces(a)lists.wfu.edu] On Behalf Of Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2014 11:52 AM To: Gretl list Subject: Re: [Gretl-users] Possible redundancy of some function packages? ... Jack: "

Re: [Gretl-users] missing tests in IV/2sls regression

2014-11-05 Thread Summers , Peter
t: Re: [Gretl-users] missing tests in IV/2sls regression On Mon, 3 Nov 2014, Summers, Peter wrote: > Using mroz.gdt in the PoE 4th ed. data sets, the following works as > expected in the console or via script: > tsls l_wage educ exper sq_exper; exper sq_exper mothereduc fathereduc You real

Re: [Gretl-users] missing tests in IV/2sls regression

2014-11-05 Thread Summers , Peter
Sent from my iPad > On Nov 4, 2014, at 6:56 PM, Allin Cottrell wrote: > >> On Mon, 3 Nov 2014, Summers, Peter wrote: >> >> Using mroz.gdt in the PoE 4th ed. data sets, the following works >> as expected in the console or via script: >> tsls l_wage educ ex

[Gretl-users] missing tests in IV/2sls regression

2014-11-03 Thread Summers , Peter
Folks, Using mroz.gdt in the PoE 4th ed. data sets, the following works as expected in the console or via script: tsls l_wage educ exper sq_exper; exper sq_exper mothereduc fathereduc However when I estimate the same model via the gui, the Hausman, Sargan and weak instruments tests don't appear

Re: [Gretl-users] Is there a possibility to estimate a dynamic panel probit model in gretl?

2014-10-16 Thread Summers , Peter
I've also got a "balanced" flag in my script that allows for unbalanced data. PS -Original Message- From: gretl-users-bounces(a)lists.wfu.edu [mailto:gretl-users-bounces(a)lists.wfu.edu] On Behalf Of Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2014 12:00 PM To: Gretl list Subj

Re: [Gretl-users] crash in icon view

2014-10-15 Thread Summers , Peter
, Summers, Peter wrote: > I've come across another bug, this one causing a crash on Windows 7. > If I open a data set (I've tried this with several), open the icon > view, then double-click on either the "summary" or "correlations" > icon, everything goes gray

[Gretl-users] crash in icon view

2014-10-15 Thread Summers , Peter
I've come across another bug, this one causing a crash on Windows 7. If I open a data set (I've tried this with several), open the icon view, then double-click on either the "summary" or "correlations" icon, everything goes gray and I get a message saying "gretl.exe has stopped working. A proble

Re: [Gretl-users] Is there a possibility to estimate a dynamic panel probit model in gretl?

2014-10-15 Thread Summers , Peter
Jan, I've got a script that estimates a Bayesian dynamic panel probit model as described in Koop, Poirier & Tobias. It's not in function package form yet, but if you give me a couple days I could get you a more-or-less user-friendly version. Jack, I'd be glad to do a swap with you too -- it'd

[Gretl-users] scatterplot bug

2014-10-15 Thread Summers , Peter
Folks, I think I've found a bug in the GUI scatterplot command. I generate a scatterplot, then edit it and change the default point marker (eg, from '+' to 'x'). I click apply to make the change, but when I try to change it back, nothing happens. This is on Windows 7, 64-bit cvs, v. 1.10.0, bui

Re: [Gretl-users] new in CVS

2014-10-05 Thread Summers , Peter
I like that idea. I also like some of those images -- how would they translate to the size of gretl's icons? Since you mentioned the "captain's log," I couldn't resist suggesting something like this: http://www.collectiondx.com/toy_review/uss_enterprise_ncc1701_hd_edition ;-) PS Sent from my i

Re: [Gretl-users] model selection criteria

2014-09-29 Thread Summers , Peter
in Cottrell wrote: > >> On Mon, 29 Sep 2014, Sven Schreiber wrote: >> >>> Am 29.09.2014 um 16:24 schrieb Summers, Peter: >>> Folks, >>> >>> What are the 3 “model selection statistics” that Gretl mentions when >>> doing tests omitting varia

[Gretl-users] model selection criteria

2014-09-29 Thread Summers , Peter
Folks, What are the 3 "model selection statistics" that Gretl mentions when doing tests omitting variables? I'm guessing adj. R-squared, log-likelihood & AIC, but what about SC & HQ? Or is she referring to the 3 info criteria? TIA, PS [cid:logoimg] Folks,   What are the 3 “model selectio

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