[Gretl-users] forecast variance decomposition, style = stacked bars (changed)

2014-06-07 Thread Tim Nall
Created forecast variance decomposition graph, style = stacked bars. Edited title. When I pressed "Apply", the stacked bars styles disappeared (became crosses, stars and boxes that mark the points that wold have been used in a line graph).

Re: [Gretl-users] For armax "diggers" Data sets for testing and a try to explain occasional armax aborting

2014-05-21 Thread Tim Nall
Yes. In my post in which I used the word "crash" inappropriately, I suggested simply adding "catch" to the relevant function calls. Output should then gracefully skip such instances, employing some form of text (could be as simple as two dashes, with a footnote at the bottom) to indicate this sort

Re: [Gretl-users] hansl function similar to armax?

2014-05-19 Thread Tim Nall
oops I meant "hansl/python," not "gretl/python". It's just a little hansl script, and then I physically copy/paste its output to a text file and process its text via python. Nothing special. On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 12:05 PM, Tim Nall wrote: > I wasn't sure if

Re: [Gretl-users] hansl function similar to armax?

2014-05-19 Thread Tim Nall
know whether continuing on after a crash is a menangful thing to do. Anyhow, thanks. TMN On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 11:07 AM, Allin Cottrell wrote: > On Mon, 19 May 2014, Tim Nall wrote: > >> Thanks, I see your point. >> TMN >> >> On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 9:52 PM, Sve

Re: [Gretl-users] hansl function similar to armax?

2014-05-19 Thread Tim Nall
Thanks, I see your point. TMN On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 9:52 PM, Sven Schreiber wrote: > Am 18.05.2014 15:49, schrieb Tim Nall: >> Is there a way to estimate the best ARIMA model within hansl? Granted >> I could just generate a half dozen or so and compare selection >> cri

[Gretl-users] hansl function similar to armax?

2014-05-18 Thread Tim Nall
Is there a way to estimate the best ARIMA model within hansl? Granted I could just generate a half dozen or so and compare selection criteria, but is there a more elegant way? Tks TMN

Re: [Gretl-users] sorry, learning hansl question

2014-05-18 Thread Tim Nall
Wow,, thank you. On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 12:38 AM, Allin Cottrell wrote: > On Sat, 17 May 2014, Tim Nall wrote: > >> OK, this is great so far, but one prob: >> >> The gretl documentation says that the interpolated p-value for kpss >> "should not be taken t

Re: [Gretl-users] sorry, learning hansl question

2014-05-17 Thread Tim Nall
ay 17, 2014 at 7:52 PM, Tim Nall wrote: > Ah, no, you wouldn't compare $test to $pvalue apples and oranges > > On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 7:25 PM, Tim Nall wrote: >> The original goal ws this: >> >> via hansl, feed 1 dependent variable and a list of independent vari

Re: [Gretl-users] sorry, learning hansl question

2014-05-17 Thread Tim Nall
Ah, no, you wouldn't compare $test to $pvalue apples and oranges On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 7:25 PM, Tim Nall wrote: > The original goal ws this: > > via hansl, feed 1 dependent variable and a list of independent variables to > kpss > depending on the output of kpss, use ei

Re: [Gretl-users] sorry, learning hansl question

2014-05-17 Thread Tim Nall
> On Sat, 17 May 2014, Tim Nall wrote: > >> OK, this is great so far, but one prob: >> >> The gretl documentation says that the interpolated p-value for kpss >> "should not be taken too seriously". So I have the test value... and >> now I want to compare

Re: [Gretl-users] sorry, learning hansl question

2014-05-17 Thread Tim Nall
k) Lucchetti wrote: > On Sat, 17 May 2014, Tim Nall wrote: > >> OK, this is great so far, but one prob: >> >> The gretl documentation says that the interpolated p-value for kpss >> "should not be taken too seriously". So I have the test value... and >> n

Re: [Gretl-users] sorry, learning hansl question

2014-05-17 Thread Tim Nall
strsplit(st_yr,i) > ed = strsplit(ed_yr,i) > smpl @st @ed >#do stuff > endloop > > The second option should only be used if your periods do not change in a > regular way as it is slower. > > Logan > >> -Original Message- >> From: gretl

Re: [Gretl-users] sorry, learning hansl question

2014-05-17 Thread Tim Nall
stuff > endloop > > The second option should only be used if your periods do not change in a > regular way as it is slower. > > Logan > >> -Original Message- >> From: gretl-users-bounces(a)lists.wfu.edu [mailto:gr etl-users- >> bounces(a)lists.wfu.edu]

[Gretl-users] sorry, learning hansl question

2014-05-17 Thread Tim Nall
If you can figure out the iffy psuedo-psuedocode below, I'm trying to run 1 ols regression over 4 different date ranges (so total 4 regressions) with 1 dependnet variable and 1 independant variable.. but I want to run a kpss test on both the depvar and indvar before doing the regression for each

Re: [Gretl-users] econometric non-gretl-specific question on VAR irfs

2014-05-08 Thread Tim Nall
It seems the link is wrong on the author's page. Correct ink is: http://www.princeton.edu/~mwatson/papers/Stock_Watson_JEP_2001.pdf (not 1998.pdf) On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 5:51 AM, John C Frain wrote: > I have used Vector Autoregressions (with James H. Stock), *Journal of > Economic Perspectiv

[Gretl-users] basic question, sorry

2014-05-05 Thread Tim Nall
There is evidence for a cointegrating relationship if: (a) The unit-root hypothesis is not rejected for the individual variables. (b) The unit-root hypothesis is rejected for the residuals (uhat) from the cointegrating regression. ..would that be correctly read as "a and b" or "a or b"? Sorry

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

2014-05-05 Thread Tim Nall
>For example, I still think that > the greatest strength of Stata is the quality of their manuals. I wish we > had manuals comparable to theirs. Oh, well. > PhD in English/Applied Linguistics in the house. The good news is, I can haz gud English when I'm careful. I write well, usually. The very ba

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

2014-05-02 Thread Tim Nall
most files, and nobser in the residuals files went *up* -- and xint.t (interpolated) still did not change. TMN On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 6:01 PM, 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,

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

2014-05-02 Thread Tim Nall
that xint.t is not overwritten at any point, but other files are. On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 5:29 PM, Ignacio Diaz-Emparanza < ignacio.diaz-emparanza(a)ehu.es> wrote: > On 02/05/14 11:20, Tim Nall wrote: > > First, I was wrong. Changing the sample range doesn't help. Perhaps I

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

2014-05-02 Thread Tim Nall
n the program cannot append the sername.txt file to my csv file is that the column lengths are not the same. On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 4:37 PM, 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

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

2014-05-02 Thread Tim Nall
s sound theory yest there is no co > integration of data or unit root is present then there are two golden ways. > A. Increase the sample size > B. Reexamine the theory > Incidentally I may comment that the concept of spurious regression has > been oversold > > > On Fri, M

[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

[Gretl-users] labels on graphs

2014-05-01 Thread Tim Nall
All, I honestly don't know whether I'm being helpful or annoying. If it's the latter, then please accept my apologies. However, the labels on graphs are not always adequately suggestive. Forex, for a structural auroregression, you can graph IRFs by shock and by var. Let's say you do one first then

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

2014-05-01 Thread Tim Nall
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 On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 3:56 PM, Allin Cottrell wrote: > On Thu, 1 May 2014, Tim Nall wrote: > >

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

2014-05-01 Thread Tim Nall
Is this something obvious, or do I need to append data & resend to list? ? TotContr_tr = tramolin(TotalContrastive) New data not conformable for appending New data not conformable for appending Is this something obvious, or do I need to append data & resend to list?? TotContr_tr = tramolin(TotalCo

Re: [Gretl-users] Error message for tramolin

2014-04-28 Thread Tim Nall
Please forgive me if this sounds picky, but the two sentence reply you just gave me would be a wonderfully helpful bit of text to append to any error messages that arise because the shell is turned off. On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 5:30 PM, Allin Cottrell wrote: > On Mon, 28 Apr 2014, Tim Nall wr

[Gretl-users] Error message for tramolin

2014-04-28 Thread Tim Nall
Following instructions on this list, I went to files-->Function files --> On local machine. This popped up a set of (unchecked) check boxes. I checked all of them, then closed that popup. I went to the menus, found nothing. Went back to "On local machine" and double-clicked the "tramolin" option. A

Re: [Gretl-users] a small suggestion (actually two)

2014-04-28 Thread Tim Nall
gt;> On Mon, 28 Apr 2014, Tim Nall wrote: >> >>> 2) probably too late for this suggestion: Me personally, I would >>> *never* have looked under the "Files" menu for these. In fact, I >>> didn't. I did however look under "Tools", which to

[Gretl-users] a small suggestion (actually two)

2014-04-28 Thread Tim Nall
I was happy when this list told me about Files --> Function files --> On server. It contains several things I'd been reading about, but couldn't find on gretl. I have two small suggestions that are purely for convenience: 1) I have installed 4 files, but can only find 1 of them on the menus... An

Re: [Gretl-users] Question: rho and DW stat don't appear

2014-04-28 Thread Tim Nall
ic: LM = 8.0473 with p-value = P(Chi-square(1) > 8.0473) = 0.00455716 On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 10:22 PM, Sven Schreiber wrote: > Am 27.04.2014 15:30, schrieb Tim Nall: >> May I ask, what does it mean if you take the log difference of both the >> dependent and independent variabl

[Gretl-users] Question: rho and DW stat don't appear

2014-04-27 Thread Tim Nall
May I ask, what does it mean if you take the log difference of both the dependent and independent variables in an OLS, and then rho and DW stat don't even appear in the output? The White's test value is quite small... if i swap dependent/independent, the rho and DW stat reappear... Thanks TMN May I

Re: [Gretl-users] Re [2]: armax-auto option occasionally generates this error

2014-04-26 Thread Tim Nall
or some nonlinear model for censored data, > something Tobit-style: discrete zeros have non-zero > probability in your sample > > --- Оригінальне повідомлення --- > Від кого: Tim Nall > Дата: 26 квітня 2014, 15:55:09 > > > This one likes to crash (attached as text fi

Re: [Gretl-users] Re [2]: armax-auto option occasionally generates this error

2014-04-26 Thread Tim Nall
9.5225 > 3, 0-902.8336 -886.4686 -896.2076 > 4, 0-900.8349 -881.1969 -892.8837 > === > * indicates best models > > Can you inform about sample size? > > --- Оригінальне повідомлення --- > Від кого: Tim Nall >

Re: [Gretl-users] armax-auto option occasionally generates this error

2014-04-26 Thread Tim Nall
игінальне повідомлення --- > Від кого: "Tim Nall" > Дата: 26 квітня 2014, 13:19:16 > > Thanks to all for the replies. Will try to find TRAMO. meanwhile, the > armax-auto option occasionally generates this error: > > ? armax(4, 4, BOTH, null, 1, 1, 0, 1, 0) > BFGS:

[Gretl-users] armax-auto option occasionally generates this error

2014-04-26 Thread Tim Nall
Thanks to all for the replies. Will try to find TRAMO. meanwhile, the armax-auto option occasionally generates this error: ? armax(4, 4, BOTH, null, 1, 1, 0, 1, 0) BFGS: initial value of objective function is not finite *** error in function armax, line 82 > loop q = 0..maxq On Sat, Apr 26, 2014

[Gretl-users] quickly run through ARIMA models, varying parameters, acquiring AIC, BIC, HQC?

2014-04-26 Thread Tim Nall
All, Please forgive my simple questions. For ARIMA modelling, using the ACF and PACF to determine the pdq parameters requires subjective judgment based on experience. Answers are seldom clear-cut. As the subject header says, can a somewhat more objective path be found in quickly running through AR

Re: [Gretl-users] No lags though option selected

2014-04-14 Thread Tim Nall
, I did so this morning. So, it seems to work now. Sorry for taking your time. TMN On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 10:18 PM, Allin Cottrell wrote: > On Sun, 13 Apr 2014, Tim Nall wrote: > >> Tried again, still no result. > > Do you get as far as the dialog asking how many lags you want? &

Re: [Gretl-users] No lags though option selected

2014-04-13 Thread Tim Nall
er interested user to address, I know. On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 7:13 PM, Sven Schreiber wrote: > Am 13.04.2014 12:55, schrieb Tim Nall: >> gretl list, >> >> One prob and one picayune complaint: >> >> 1) GRETL 1.9.14 Taiwan Windows XP professional, using GUI, [Add --

Re: [Gretl-users] No lags though option selected

2014-04-13 Thread Tim Nall
Oh PS, yes, the dialog box to select lags does indeed display. On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 7:14 PM, Allin Cottrell wrote: > On Sun, 13 Apr 2014, Tim Nall wrote: > >> One prob and one picayune complaint: >> >> 1) GRETL 1.9.14 Taiwan Windows XP professional, using GUI, [Add

Re: [Gretl-users] No lags though option selected

2014-04-13 Thread Tim Nall
en employs. I do not know what a "twisty" is. yes, thank you, the doc by Adkins has indeed been relatively helpful... thank you. On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 7:14 PM, Allin Cottrell wrote: > On Sun, 13 Apr 2014, Tim Nall wrote: > >> One prob and one picayune complaint: >&

[Gretl-users] No lags though option selected

2014-04-13 Thread Tim Nall
gretl list, One prob and one picayune complaint: 1) GRETL 1.9.14 Taiwan Windows XP professional, using GUI, [Add --> lags of selected variables] has no effect. I have closed/reopened GRETL, made sure I was selecting one or more variables, tried repeatedly. The other options under the "Add" menu i

Re: [Gretl-users] "Invalid byte sequence in conversion input"

2014-03-08 Thread Tim Nall
o your website and search for the update. Thanks! On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 10:36 PM, Allin Cottrell wrote: > On Fri, 7 Mar 2014, Tim Nall wrote: > > > Sorry -- > > Windows XP professional (English) > > gretl 1.9.12 > > Taiwan ROC > > The point you mention was f

Re: [Gretl-users] "Invalid byte sequence in conversion input"

2014-03-07 Thread Tim Nall
Sorry -- Windows XP professional (English) gretl 1.9.12 Taiwan ROC On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 9:54 AM, Allin Cottrell wrote: > On Fri, 7 Mar 2014, Tim Nall wrote: > > > This is apparently the same as bug #84, from six years ago. I run OLS > > models, try to save out put to tex

Re: [Gretl-users] "Invalid byte sequence in conversion input"

2014-03-07 Thread Tim Nall
ut i want, and write it all out to one nice little summary table. Copy/paste that one table to my research, big time saver. Thanks for your help. On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 8:43 AM, Tim Nall wrote: > This is apparently the same as bug #84, from six years ago. I run OLS > models, try to save out

[Gretl-users] "Invalid byte sequence in conversion input"

2014-03-07 Thread Tim Nall
This is apparently the same as bug #84, from six years ago. I run OLS models, try to save out put to text file(s), and get error "Invalid byte sequence in conversion input". My language preference setting was originally "Automatic", but I changed it to "English", closed gretl, restarted. Didn't wor