[Gretl-devel] Re: tobit's --quiet flag to quite guiet

Am 19.01.2023 um 09:22 schrieb Marcin Błażejowski: > > Hi, > > when we perform tobit command with --guiet flag we sometimes get the > following message: "Warning: couldn't improve criterion (gradient = > 6.04477e-06)", which /per se/ makes estimation not so quiet. So, the > question is: shall we leave current behavior or make 'tobit --quiet' > really quiet? > > If the later, I wrote a simple patch which suppress any messages > (attached). Another possibility would be adding '--silent' flag, > which I could do either? > Personally I think that choosing "quiet" doesn't mean that I don't want to see warning messages, so the current behavior is OK. "silent" could be a possibility, but then I think we would have to do it for all estimators, not just for tobit out of coincidence.