Re: [Gretl-users] how to define a variable

2011-05-05 Thread Sven Schreiber
Am 05.05.2011 05:16, schrieb Allin Cottrell: > > However, you can't actually represent infinities in gretl: the > expression "-1/0" will produce a missing value (NA). > And IIRC, if you happen to multiply those with zero, you get zeroes. (There was a thread about this some time ago.) So you

Re: [Gretl-users] how to define a variable

2011-05-05 Thread Ignacio Diaz-Emparanza
El 05/05/11 05:16, Allin Cottrell escribió: > On Wed, 4 May 2011, Qi Shi wrote: > >> There are three variables y,x.and z in my data, in which z is a >> dummy. I would like to define a new variable w: if z=1, w=y; >> otherwise w=-infinity. What is the scripts? thanks! > > In principle, > > w =

Re: [Gretl-users] how to define a variable

2011-05-05 Thread Allin Cottrell
On Thu, 5 May 2011, Sven Schreiber wrote: > I guess it is official that gretl 2.0 will not distinguish between NA > and NaN etc.? (Just asking.) Well, I think so. After the lengthy discussion of this (around April 2010) the conclusion I came to is that it's pretty much impossible to set up a

Re: [Gretl-users] how to define a variable

2011-05-05 Thread Allin Cottrell
On Wed, 4 May 2011, Qi Shi wrote: > There are three variables y,x.and z in my data, in which z is a > dummy. I would like to define a new variable w: if z=1, w=y; > otherwise w=-infinity.  What is the scripts? thanks! In principle, w = (z==1)? y : -1/0 However, you can't actually represent

[Gretl-users] how to define a variable

2011-05-04 Thread Qi Shi
 hi There are three variables y,x.and z in my data, in which z is a dummy. I would like to define a new variable w: if z=1, w=y; otherwise w=-infinity.  What is the scripts? thanks! shi,qi