Actually, 'ols regression' is NOT a model.   Sorry, that's 3 point off for you, Oleg!  :-)    A regression is a conditional mean E(y|X), which may be linear or it may not (e.g., probit).  OLS is one of several possible estimators of a linear regression model.  The model must also include other information about the DGP as in how the variables are generated (both y (unit root?) and x (fixed?, random?, jointly determined?) as well as properties of what is excluded from the model, errors.  Software knows nothing of this. That is for the user to consider upon prior to choosing an estimator.  

Students aren't being stubborn, its me who is stubborn!  And cranky ....  !

Cheers,
Lee  

On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 7:38 AM, <oleg_komashko@ukr.net> wrote:
It's interesting how different languages
speakers treat  "model".

My own language has no articles and I
 perceive "model" as "a model".
Of course, "ols" is not a model, but
"ols regression" is.

I think it's better to ask Gretl team rather than
changing menus every time an instructor
meets a stubborn student.

For, example, currently I don't know the logic
behind placing "arima..... --x-12-arima" under "model"
and X-12-ARIMA under "variable".

But, certainly, Gretl team DO know, and, having the time,
could inform me. Then I could pass the answer to "children".


Oleh



14 жовтня 2015, 15:00:13, від "Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti" <r.lucchetti@univpm.it>:

>   On Wed, 14 Oct 2015, Ignacio Diaz-Emparanza wrote:
>
> > El 13/10/15 a las 20:35, Allin Cottrell escribió:
> >> Similarly for "Model": the idea is not that you're going to see a list of
> >> models as such, it's "Come here for operations relating to models; come
> >> here if you want to model something."
> >>
> > It was a very interesting debate. This was not correctly translated into
> > Spanish. I will use "Modelizar" instead of "Modelo" from now on.
>
> I'm going to keep "Modello" in Italian, as shorthand for "Specificazione e
> stima di un modello", unless my fellow mother-tongue speakers convince me
> otherwise.
>
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>
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>
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