[Gretl-devel] Re: old and new ideas for the next 'extra' addon version

On Sat, 25 Apr 2020, Sven Schreiber wrote: > Am 09.04.2020 um 07:13 schrieb Artur Tarassow: >> Am 07.04.20 um 23:17 schrieb Sven Schreiber:

>>> I agree the name is suboptimal, but maybe we should rather try to >>> describe what it is for: Namely re-drawing for a multi-equation system. >>> Perhaps something like 'syscoeffdraw'? That would also leave the door >>> open for other underlying distributions in the future. (Would that be a >>> likely or sensible generalization?) >> >> But then it's unclear that its using some Bayesian approach, I guess. > > [sorry for the delay] Also true. > We should settle on some name now. > My next proposal is a shortened version of Artur's: normiwishart() Actually, we could go for a name that emphasises the _purpose_ of the function. How about multieq_draw(); then of course we need to explain thoroughly what it does and how in the docs, but IMO the name is nice and easy to remember.