gretl on OS X
by Allin Cottrell
One thing that occurs to me as we get ready to release 1.5.1: are
there any Mac users on the list who might be able to create a build
of gretl on a reasonably current version of OS X?
I'm able to build gretl on OS X 10.2.4, which is now quite dated,
and even that only on suffrance (it's my wife's computer!).
--
Allin Cottrell
Department of Economics
Wake Forest University, NC
19 years
RE: Some technical problem for translation
by Florent Bresson
I don't forget to load the key with pageant, so I
don't understand the cause of the problem. Just a
question with the key. When I create the key with
PuTTYgen, I have to replace the text string with
"f_bresson(a)shell.sourceforge.net" (f_bresson is my
login on sourceforge). Am I right ?
Florent Bresson
>Florent Bresson schrieb:
>> 2) I try to access to the fr.po file via CVS but
>> without success. I'm working on win XP, so I'm
using
>> Putty and TortoiseCVS. I have registered a public
key
>> on Sourceforge.net and, I think so, respected the
>> instructions for the cvsroot. But it fails every
time.
>> So I need some help. Could someone give me the
right
>> procedure to checkout ?
>>
>Don't have much time this week, but in principle I
can >help you with
>putty and wincvs.
>One wild guess: is the putty/sourceforge key active?
>(in my setup I
>have
>to start pageant and load the key before connecting
>with wincvs)
>-sven
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more on scatterplot OLS fits
by John Paravantis
Just an additional point on Jack's remark.
It is not that the OLS fit is simply NOT SHOWN on a scatterplot when the
slope is NOT SIGNIFICANT: the option to hide (or show) an OLS fit DOES
NOT EVEN EXIST on the dialog box you get when you edit a scatterplot.
Now, with this, I do have an issue! Why take this option away from the
user? Perhaps it should default to NOT plotting an OLS line when the
slope is insignificant BUT the option should be THERE when you edit the
graph.
John
>
>I agree with Sven. I'd rather have it turned off by default in any case, with
>the option of plotting it if wanted. After all, if the data points align on a
>stright line by themselves, the least squares interpolation gives little more
>information, no?
>
>Riccardo "Jack" Lucchetti
>Dipartimento di Economia
>Facoltà di Economia "G. Fuà"
>Ancona
>
>
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scatterplot OLS fit issues
by John Paravantis
I too would have never guessed that it only displays the OLS fit if the
slope is significant.
I concur with Sven's opinion: I would rather have the decision lie with
me rather than on the machine and happenstance sample circumstances.
Finally, yes, adding linear, quadratic etc fits would be absolutely great!
As for the multi symbol labeling capability, sure, let's hold it off for
a future release.
Otherwise, me mouth is watering in expectation of version 1.5.1!
Methinks I have become a gretl ...addict.
John
Univ of Piraeus
Greece
>>The OLS fitted line is displayed in a scatter plot only if the slope
>>coefficient is significant at the 10 percent level. (If you want an
>>actual versus fitted graph regardless of the significance of the fit,
>>you can estimate an OLS model and explicitly request such a plot via the
>>menus).
>>
>>
>
>Good to know, because during lectures I couldn't explain to my students
>why the line was sometimes there, sometimes not. To be honest, I think
>it's better to not make it dependent on significance. At the stage of
>plotting without estimating a model, I would never have guessed that
>already some testing was going on.
>
>
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Occasional problem with scatterplots
by John Paravantis
Allin,
Playing with the fatality panel data set from the Stock and Watson
sample files, I have notices that a problem crops up occasionally with
scatterplots.
Restricting the data set to a certain year (e.g. year=1984), I have
noticed when restoring back the full range and then applying some other
restriction (e.g. year=1982) when I plot a new scatterplot I DONT have
the OLS line appearing in the scatterplot NEITHER is there an option to
add one!
I know that I am not being specific enough as to when this happens; if
you think this merits special attention I would be happy to send a more
detailed message with specific things I did to cause this problem.
John Paravantis
University of Piraeus
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Some technical problem for translation
by Florent Bresson
Just two small questions.
1) I wrote to Michel Robitaille who was in charge of
the french translation of gretl, and asked him if I
could participate to the the french translation. He
answered that it was a good idea but wrote that I
should fill a form for the translation disclaimer of
the Free Software Foundation. Should I do this ?
2) I try to access to the fr.po file via CVS but
without success. I'm working on win XP, so I'm using
Putty and TortoiseCVS. I have registered a public key
on Sourceforge.net and, I think so, respected the
instructions for the cvsroot. But it fails every time.
So I need some help. Could someone give me the right
procedure to checkout ?
Florent Bresson
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Suggestion on scatterplots
by John Paravantis
I have a suggestion for the next version of gretl.
A much needed (in my opinion) feature is the capability of plotting data
on a XY scatterplot in different symbols according to their membership
in groups, e.g. in "+" if some CODEVAR=1, in "o" if CODEVAR=2, "-" IF
CODEVAR=3 etc.
It appears that such a scatterplot is indeed available in Data>Graph
specified vars>XY plot with factor separation... BUT the factor may only
be binary (i.e.have 2 values).
This is an unnecessary restriction. In fact, such scatterplots would be
very useful in panel data analysis, for instance.
All in all, methinks this would be a VERY useful addition to gretl.
Friendly regards to Allin and all,
John Paravantis
University of Piraeus
Greece
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Getting ready for 1.5.1
by Allin Cottrell
Hello translators: I think most of you are now using direct access
to gretl CVS, but I have just sent an updated gretl.pot file to IRO
in preparation for the gretl 1.5.1 release.
I won't add or change any more translatable strings at this point.
But we're still taking bug reports. I'll try to track down the
issue Jack mentioned, with gretlcli.exe crashing in the win32
console.
Any test results for the model table, using the latest Windows
snapshot?
--
Allin Cottrell
Department of Economics
Wake Forest University, NC
19 years
RE: contribution
by Florent Bresson
Here's my login for sourceforge : f_bresson.
Thanks
Florent Bresson
On Thu, 2 Mar 2006, Florent Bresson wrote:
> I noticed some errors in the french translation of
> gretl and I would like to contribute to this part of
> the project. How can I do ?
>From my point of view, the easiest way is if you can
join up as a
member of sourceforge (and send me your sourceforge
login name).
Then I can add you as a gretl translator and you can
get direct
access to the fr.po translation file via CVS.
Allin Cottrell
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Problems with 2SLS for SEM
by Al Leong
Hi,
while trying out the 2SLS estimation for a
simultaneous equation model: IS-LM Model (Asteriou,
2006), I ecountered the following problem (see test
case attached)
You can see from the attached output that although
three instrument variables (M, I and M_1) are
specified, only one, I , was used in the estimation.
Please advise.
Thanks and have a nice day.
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