Re: [Gretl-devel] Presentation of model results

Hello all, We recently redesigned the presentation of coefficients, standard errors, and so on, in the printing of model results in gretl. We're now thinking of revamping the presentation of the additional results that follow the table of coefficients (i.e., sum of squared residuals, R^2, loglikelihood, etc.). This has been prompted by Christopher Dougherty, who intends to use gretl as the standard software in a new edition of his Introduction to Econometrics (Oxford). He'll be printing a bunch of regression results and he asked if we'd consider using a more compact format, along the lines of Eviews. It's true, our current presentation uses a lot of vertical space. I've mocked up an alternative compact presentation and I'd like to hear what people think of this. I'm particularly keen to hear from translators, because it could be a problem translating the abbreviated strings. Please see the example at http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/~cottrell/dougherty/model.html where I show a given model as displayed by current gretl, the proposed modification, and Stata and Eviews output for comparison. Note that for a translation of the compact table to work correctly, all the abbreviated strings (such as "Mean dependent var", "Sum squared resid") should be no greater than 19 characters in length. Does this look doable? If translation is not feasible, I'm thinking of including the compact presentation as an English-only option -- but obviously it would be preferable to maintain consistency across languages if possible. Allin. _______________________________________________ Gretl-devel mailing list Gretl-devel(a)lists.wfu.edu http://lists.wfu.edu/mailman/listinfo/gretl-devel