[Gretl-devel] Presentation of model results
Hello all,
We recently redesigned the presentation of coefficients, standard
errors, and so on, in the printing of model results in gretl.
We're now thinking of revamping the presentation of the additional
results that follow the table of coefficients (i.e., sum of
squared residuals, R^2, loglikelihood, etc.).
This has been prompted by Christopher Dougherty, who intends to
use gretl as the standard software in a new edition of his
Introduction to Econometrics (Oxford). He'll be printing a bunch
of regression results and he asked if we'd consider using a more
compact format, along the lines of Eviews.
It's true, our current presentation uses a lot of vertical space.
I've mocked up an alternative compact presentation and I'd like to
hear what people think of this. I'm particularly keen to hear
from translators, because it could be a problem translating the
abbreviated strings.
Please see the example at
http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/~cottrell/dougherty/model.html
where I show a given model as displayed by current gretl, the
proposed modification, and Stata and Eviews output for comparison.
Note that for a translation of the compact table to work
correctly, all the abbreviated strings (such as "Mean dependent
var", "Sum squared resid") should be no greater than 19 characters
in length. Does this look doable?
If translation is not feasible, I'm thinking of including the
compact presentation as an English-only option -- but obviously it
would be preferable to maintain consistency across languages if
possible.
Allin.