Re: [Gretl-devel] INFO: $obsmicro refers to day instead of week for weekly series

On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 3:02 AM Sven Schreiber <svetosch(a)gmx.net&gt; wrote: > > Am 19.03.2019 um 22:27 schrieb Allin Cottrell: >> >> Question: now that we have the isoweek() function we could redefine >> seasonals() to use ISO 8601 week numbers in the second case rather than >> just repeating 1 to 52 without regard to the calendar -- would that be >> worthwhile? > > Probably yes. I've looked more closely at the nysewk.gdt dataset and > added seasonal (periodic) dummies again. The series starts in 1966, > first date 1966-01-05. Scrolling down to the end of the series, the > dummy for the first week of the year has the last entry of 1 for the > date 2005-11-16. I guess that's not really usable. In git and snapshots weekly seasonals() now use ISO 8601 week numbers when the data are dated.