Re: [Gretl-devel] bandwidth default for nadarwat()

On Wed, 23 May 2018, Sven Schreiber wrote: > Am 23.05.2018 um 17:10 schrieb Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti: >> On Wed, 23 May 2018, Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti wrote: >> >>>> So should we go with this default? >>> >>> I like this. >>> >> >> Hm, hold on a second. >> >> We also use the bandwidth argument to flag if we want the >> leave-one-out estimator or not (via its sign). >> >> I'm afraid the best way to handle this would be introducing a >> backward-incompatible change. I can't see an easy way out of this. > > Well, the default then would not work for this leave-one-out thing, > requiring an explicit input, but that's it. I don't know how popular > this leave-out-variant is, would it be so bad? (Not worse than the > status quo, mind you.) Actually, the leave-one-out variant is often preferable, so if we had to have a default value for that as well I would like to have it on.