Re: [Gretl-devel] bad nls error message
On Tue, 21 Dec 2010, Sven Schreiber wrote:
I just tried to do NLS w/o initializing the parameters -- the error
message was not informative ("wrong data type"). If I use "catch", I
get
an even stranger message: "no regression function is given".
Sample script, please.
I've tried modifying/breaking the file ects_nls.inp, supplied with
gretl, in two different ways:
* Remove the definition of the parameter "alpha" altogether --
Error message: The symbol 'alpha' is undefined
* Give a bare declaration of alpha, no initialization --
Error message: Data error
Allin