[Gretl-devel] User-level model printing command

Dear all, lately I found that when I write a script that does some kind of estimation, most of the times I have to write a long and boring function to display the results "nicely". So I thought this kind of thing could be done once and for all via a command. The patch you'll find attached[*] implements a "modprint" command, which I believe will turn out useful to people like me, Ignacio, Gordon, Sven, Stefano, Franck etc. In practice, once you have your estimates, you pack your estimated coefficients and their standard errors in a nx2 matrix (call it X), store their names in a string (call it parnames) using the comma as a separator and issue the modprint command as follows modprint parnames X If you have additional statistics that you want printed, you collect them in a column vector (call it addstats), which you specify as a third argument. An example script is also attached, which should hopefully clarify what I have in mind. Bear in mind this is still preliminary work; my main idea as of now is to hear your comments. Have fun! --------------------------------------------------- [*] How do you apply the patch? Simple: 1) save the diff file somewhere. 2) from the unix shell, go to your gretl source main directory (the one you run ./configure from) 3) be sure you have a fresh CVS source; run cvs up if necessary 4) issue the command patch -p0 < /path/where/you/saved/the/diff/file/modprint.diff 5) run make etcetera Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti Dipartimento di Economia Università Politecnica delle Marche r.lucchetti(a)univpm.it http://www.econ.univpm.it/lucchetti