gretl 1.8.2 released
by Allin Cottrell
At http://gretl.sourceforge.net
ChangeLog entry:
7/8/2009 version 1.8.2
- Fixes for GARCH "corner cases"
- "summary" command: add --simple and --by=byvar options
- Fix another XLS import bug
- nls, mle, gmm, arma: allow continuation of scripts when
these estimators fail to converge, in which case the variable
$error is set to a non-zero value (new --continue option)
- "fcast" command: add more forecast evaluation statistics
- Add fcstats function to provide statistics for evaluation of
forecasts
- GUI model window, Graphs menu: add scatter plot of actual vs
fitted a la Theil
- Rationalize use of GRETL_KEEP_GOING and halt_on_error: induce
consistency between CLI and GUI programs
- xtab command: add --matrix option to take frequencies from
a named matrix
- add "anova" command (one-way and two-way) plus GUI menu entry
- Main window: make column headings clickable for sorting
variables by ID number or name
- Enhancements to Edit Attributes dialog for data series
- "heckit command": fix problem with some residuals being
unavailable via $uhat
- Printing: fix bad output from "pergm" command when the
spectral density is very large
- Printing: revise printout of summary statistics for better
consistency in non-English locales and for long variable
names
- Fix bug: allow for the fact that TRAMO truncates long variable
names to 8 characters in the names of its output file
- Fix bug: ensure that old X-12-ARIMA output files get deleted
before a new run
- TRAMO and X-12-ARIMA: try to provide better information in
case of errors
- Add GUI option: suppress detailed printout from X-12-ARIMA
- GUI menu Variable/Filters: add GUI access to the fracdiff
function
- Several small fixes for the GUI
- Fix bugs 2806815, 2810219
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Allin Cottrell
Department of Economics
Wake Forest University
15 years, 4 months