Re: [Gretl-devel] function package news
I will provide some example scripts for my stochastic frontier functions.
As it happens I have extended the range of models that the functions
are designed to handle, but lack of time caused by a large project
with a tight deadline has limited the amount of time and energy that
I have had to tidy and document the additional
facilities. Fortuitously one major phase of the project has just
come to an end, so that after a few days vacation I can provide
updated function scripts as well as the examples. I should be able
to do this by the end of the first week of September if that is good enough.
However, I do have one question. I prefer to ensure that the
examples make some kind of econometric sense. Further, it makes
sense to design the examples to make use of standard datasets that
accompany Gretl or can easily be added through the data library
functions. However, there is a shortage of panel data that would fit
into a stochastic frontier framework. Is it possible to contribute
one or more datasets based on publicly available data that I could
use to illustrate the estimation of various models with the data. I
have in mind some WHO data that William Greene has used in a variety
of papers. The alternative would be to include code to generate some
artificial data that can be used for estimation, along the lines of
Monte Carlo studies.
Gordon