Re: [Gretl-devel] 'omit' issues
On Thu, 18 Feb 2010, Sven Schreiber wrote:
two small things:
mysig = 0.05
omit --auto=mysig
doesn't seem to work (using a variable as the cutoff significance
level). For scripting this is unfortunate.
OK, fixed in CVS.
Also it seems that
omit ... --quiet
does not replace the current model with the restricted (smaller) one.
This is even explained in the help text (thanks for that!), but I wonder
if that isn't a slight abuse of the --quiet switch. I used it because I
merely wanted to suppress output, as usual in other contexts. It seems
to me that the model replacement feature deserves its own switch, such as
omit ... --replace
or somesuch.
I take your point. However, since the long-standing default is
that "omit" without any options replaces the current model, the
new option should probably be the other way around, e.g.
--test-only. This would, of course, be backward incompatible, and
quite seriously so. This could go on the list for future
consideration.
Allin.