[Gretl-announce] gretl 1.8.2 released

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 -- Allin Cottrell Department of Economics Wake Forest University