Re: [Gretl-devel] Several things

This sounds pretty good. I have another idea: How about improving the NIST test suite? I think having the functionality to automatically testing numerical accuracy is one very important advantage of gretl over other packages. What we have right now only applies the StRD linear regression test suite although I see there are some scripts in the source folder for the non-linear regression. It would be nice if the non-linear tests, summary statistics and maybe some other functionality were also included in the tests and the output was presented in a nicer way. Since Andreas will soon be kindly adding more basic stats functionality, looks like we can have 5 projects to apply with so far: 1)- C library for various file filters 2)- Enhancing the gretl database server 3)- Adding more statistical distributions 4)- Improving the NIST test suite function 5)- Adding confidence bands plots There isa mentor requirement for each project. If we decide on the above list, would it be acceptable if Allin was the mentor for 2 and 3, Jack for number 1 and I can be the mentor for number 4 and 5. Jack are you there? Any more volunteers? Any more ideas? We can still add more or replace some of the above with better ones. Most people been pretty silent so far, which is a bit discouraging but I still think this is useful and doable. At any rate, I think having 5 project proposals is prety good for an application. Sometimes the students also come up with their own proposals as well. Cheers Talha On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 9:17 PM, <andreas.rosenblad(a)ltv.se&gt; wrote: -- “Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.” - Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) --