[Gretl-devel] some mle (and modprint) issues and questions

Hi, I've noticed some things which may be quirks in relation to the 'mle' block. - If I wrongly insert several "params" lines I get a weird data error instead of a syntax error, so it took me a while to realize my mistake. Could that be made clearer? - In the guide in Listings 26.1 and 26.2 and throughout other places in ch. 26 the "genr" keyword is used. I think we want to replace that with series/scalar etc. - In that context there the rationale for using it is not quite clear to me, since it is surrounded by the cleaner use of series/scalar... Anything I'm missing? - I've been struggling without success to tell the mle command what the parameters should be called. The background being that I need to specify a single composite vector to accommodate several specifications. In the guide (ch.26) I saw a similar problem, and there the workaround was to silence mle and instead semi-manually invoke the modprint apparatus. But wouldn't it be more efficient if simply the wanted names could be injected, replacing the generic stuff that is in the $parnames accessor? Also because for modprint the additional stats then have to be put together manually. - Also relating to 'modprint': no on-the-fly construction of the matrix input seems possible, i.e. directly using $coeff~$stderr didn't work. - Back to mle: its $model bundle has a "rho" member of value 1.#QNAN which seems spurious in that context. (Fallout from the biprobit rho??) Well, so much for that. thanks Sven