Re: [Gretl-devel] problems importing dataset
On Mon, 21 Jul 2014, Allin Cottrell wrote:
> I think we need a policy decision here. Allin?
Yes, we do. I suppose we need to screen out "inf" and "nan" in all
combinations of cases.
Maybe I'm just being a little pedantic here, but after some reflection,
I'd consider "inf" and "nan" as two cases to treat separately. As
long as
the focus is on reading data from a file, I'm not able to imagine a
scenario in which a datafile an econometrician could be possibly
interested in could contain plus/minus infinity. On the other hand, I've
seen "NaN" (or variants thereof) used as a synonym of "NA": a missing
value. I'm not sure myself if this is relevant. Hmmm.
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Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti
Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali (DiSES)
Università Politecnica delle Marche
(formerly known as Università di Ancona)
r.lucchetti(a)univpm.it
http://www2.econ.univpm.it/servizi/hpp/lucchetti
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