Re: [Gretl-users] Gretl crashes under Ubuntu Natty 11.04
by Allin Cottrell
On Fri, 29 Apr 2011, Hugo Cohan wrote:
> I cannot launch Gretl after I automatically upgraded Ubuntu to
> Natty (11.04). I first blamed Unity, but problem persists
> launching Ubuntu Classic.
>
> message is cannot find .... /grtl2rc
>
> Apparently, a segmentation problem.
There was a bug in gretl 1.9.4 that (strangely) only seemed to be
triggered on Ubuntu. It's fixed in the current release, 1.9.5.
Allin Cottrell
12 years, 12 months
Re: [Gretl-users] scatter plot with non-binary factor separation
by Allin Cottrell
On Sat, 23 Apr 2011, Ferenci Tamas wrote:
> I was just wondering: is it somehow possible to create a scatter plot
> where markers depend on a categorical (but not dummy, i.e. not binary)
> variable? View / Graph specified vars / X-Y with factor separation
> looked promising, but it only allows dummy variables as separating
> factors, so the points can only be partitioned into two sets. Is it
> somehow possible to extend this to more than two...?
It's not a built-in command, but it's not very difficult. Suppose
you have a "treatment" variable x and a "response" variable y, and
you want to plot y against x, with the points distinguished by the
associated value of some discrete variable d. Then:
<script>
matrix dvals = values(d)
nd = rows(dvals)
list yd = null
loop i=1..nd
series y$i = (d == dvals[i]) ? y : NA
yd = yd y$i
endloop
gnuplot yd x --output=display # or whatever option
</script>
Allin Cottrell
12 years, 12 months
Gretl crashes under Ubuntu Natty 11.04
by Hugo Cohan
I cannot launch Gretl after I automatically upgraded Ubuntu to Natty (11.04). I first blamed Unity, but problem persists launching Ubuntu Classic.
message is cannot find .... /grtl2rc
Apparently, a segmentation problem.
Any suggestions?
12 years, 12 months
GRETL versus Stata: Time Series
by Charles Koss
I have used Stata and GRETL for univariate and multivariate time
series analyses. And today decided to share my opinion with the
community. I have concluded that GRETL is a reliable software for time
series analyses while Stata capabilities are still in development. An
example, Stata can estimate Vector Error Correction Models, however,
it can not provide estimates of the standard errors for the IRF's.
Therefore, I can not recommend Stata fot this type of analysis whereas
the opposite is true for GRETL.
In Stata, some time series estimators are written by users and then
down the road, the company incorporates them in the core software. An
example, rolling command for rolling regression. Other examples of
this practice, cusum and prais commands.
So, I would like to know some papers that compare the time series
capabilities of Stata and GRETL in order to have a better
understanding of the two softwares. Any help is appreciated.
Thank you,
Charles
--
Charles Koss
http://charlesonnet.blogspot.com
12 years, 12 months
Re: [Gretl-users] Gretl-users Digest, Vol 51, Issue 31
by Francisco López Herrera
The implemention of bayesian tools into Gretl-time series analysis would be a very good idea...flh(Parameswara das)
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> 1. Re: GRETL versus Stata: Time Series (Thomas Volscho)
> 2. Re: GRETL versus Stata: Time Series (Summers, Peter)
> 3. Re: GRETL versus Stata: Time Series (Charles Koss)
> 4. Re: GRETL versus Stata: Time Series (Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti)
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>Message: 1
>Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 18:07:17 +0000
>From: Thomas Volscho <Thomas.Volscho(a)csi.cuny.edu>
>Subject: Re: [Gretl-users] GRETL versus Stata: Time Series
>To: Gretl list <gretl-users(a)lists.wfu.edu>
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>That sounds like a good assessment.
>
>Does anyone have any plans to (or has anyone) implemented the Sims-Zha model (their Bayesian approach to VAR?)
>
>Thomas W. Volscho
>Assistant Professor of Sociology
>Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work
>City University of New York-College of Staten Island
>2800 Victory Blvd., Bldg. 4S, Room 210
>Staten Island, NY 10314
>
>phone: 718-982-3781
>email: thomas.volscho(a)csi.cuny.edu
>web: http://scholar.library.csi.cuny.edu/~volschot
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: gretl-users-bounces(a)lists.wfu.edu [mailto:gretl-users-bounces@lists.wfu.edu] On Behalf Of Charles Koss
>Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2011 10:53 AM
>To: Gretl list
>Subject: [Gretl-users] GRETL versus Stata: Time Series
>
>I have used Stata and GRETL for univariate and multivariate time
>series analyses. And today decided to share my opinion with the
>community. I have concluded that GRETL is a reliable software for time
>series analyses while Stata capabilities are still in development. An
>example, Stata can estimate Vector Error Correction Models, however,
>it can not provide estimates of the standard errors for the IRF's.
>Therefore, I can not recommend Stata fot this type of analysis whereas
>the opposite is true for GRETL.
>
>In Stata, some time series estimators are written by users and then
>down the road, the company incorporates them in the core software. An
>example, rolling command for rolling regression. Other examples of
>this practice, cusum and prais commands.
>
>So, I would like to know some papers that compare the time series
>capabilities of Stata and GRETL in order to have a better
>understanding of the two softwares. Any help is appreciated.
>
>Thank you,
>
>Charles
>
>
>--
>Charles Koss
>http://charlesonnet.blogspot.com
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>Message: 2
>Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 13:34:09 -0500
>From: "Summers, Peter" <peter.summers(a)ttu.edu>
>Subject: Re: [Gretl-users] GRETL versus Stata: Time Series
>To: Gretl list <gretl-users(a)lists.wfu.edu>
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>FWIW, I've toyed with the idea of translating some of my Bayesian (VAR & other) code into gretl, but haven't for a couple reasons: 1) I haven't had the time, and 2) a lot of this (including Sims-Zha) is available in R and therefore accessible via gretl. So this is potentially re-inventing the wheel.
>
>It does seem, though, that it would be fairly easy to implement some basic BVAR functionality in gretl, and I'd be willing to look more closely at that if there's demand (not before this summer though).
>
>PS
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: gretl-users-bounces(a)lists.wfu.edu [mailto:gretl-users-bounces@lists.wfu.edu] On Behalf Of Thomas Volscho
>Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2011 1:07 PM
>To: Gretl list
>Subject: Re: [Gretl-users] GRETL versus Stata: Time Series
>
>That sounds like a good assessment.
>
>Does anyone have any plans to (or has anyone) implemented the Sims-Zha model (their Bayesian approach to VAR?)
>
>Thomas W. Volscho
>Assistant Professor of Sociology
>Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work
>City University of New York-College of Staten Island
>2800 Victory Blvd., Bldg. 4S, Room 210
>Staten Island, NY 10314
>
>phone: 718-982-3781
>email: thomas.volscho(a)csi.cuny.edu
>web: http://scholar.library.csi.cuny.edu/~volschot
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: gretl-users-bounces(a)lists.wfu.edu [mailto:gretl-users-bounces@lists.wfu.edu] On Behalf Of Charles Koss
>Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2011 10:53 AM
>To: Gretl list
>Subject: [Gretl-users] GRETL versus Stata: Time Series
>
>I have used Stata and GRETL for univariate and multivariate time
>series analyses. And today decided to share my opinion with the
>community. I have concluded that GRETL is a reliable software for time
>series analyses while Stata capabilities are still in development. An
>example, Stata can estimate Vector Error Correction Models, however,
>it can not provide estimates of the standard errors for the IRF's.
>Therefore, I can not recommend Stata fot this type of analysis whereas
>the opposite is true for GRETL.
>
>In Stata, some time series estimators are written by users and then
>down the road, the company incorporates them in the core software. An
>example, rolling command for rolling regression. Other examples of
>this practice, cusum and prais commands.
>
>So, I would like to know some papers that compare the time series
>capabilities of Stata and GRETL in order to have a better
>understanding of the two softwares. Any help is appreciated.
>
>Thank you,
>
>Charles
>
>
>--
>Charles Koss
>http://charlesonnet.blogspot.com
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>Message: 3
>Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 13:43:00 -0500
>From: Charles Koss <hqtiger(a)gmail.com>
>Subject: Re: [Gretl-users] GRETL versus Stata: Time Series
>To: Gretl list <gretl-users(a)lists.wfu.edu>
>Message-ID: <BANLkTikz5jsD0NHAWVdkaxT_nbpxCYKK8w(a)mail.gmail.com>
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>The last post in this thread generated some questions:
>
>What incentives could be created for individuals that cooperate with
>the development of GRETL?
>
>How to align those incentives to promotion (tenure) and salaries of
>those individuals that cooperate in this open source community?
>
>
>Charles
>
>On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 1:34 PM, Summers, Peter <peter.summers(a)ttu.edu> wrote:
>> FWIW, I've toyed with the idea of translating some of my Bayesian (VAR & other) code into gretl, but haven't for a couple reasons: 1) I haven't had the time, and 2) a lot of this (including Sims-Zha) is available in R and therefore accessible via gretl. So this is potentially re-inventing the wheel.
>>
>> It does seem, though, that it would be fairly easy to implement some basic BVAR functionality in gretl, and I'd be willing to look more closely at that if there's demand (not before this summer though).
>>
>> PS
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: gretl-users-bounces(a)lists.wfu.edu [mailto:gretl-users-bounces@lists.wfu.edu] On Behalf Of Thomas Volscho
>> Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2011 1:07 PM
>> To: Gretl list
>> Subject: Re: [Gretl-users] GRETL versus Stata: Time Series
>>
>> That sounds like a good assessment.
>>
>> Does anyone have any plans to (or has anyone) implemented the Sims-Zha model (their Bayesian approach to VAR?)
>>
>> Thomas W. Volscho
>> Assistant Professor of Sociology
>> Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work
>> City University of New York-College of Staten Island
>> 2800 Victory Blvd., Bldg. 4S, Room 210
>> Staten Island, NY 10314
>>
>> phone: 718-982-3781
>> email: thomas.volscho(a)csi.cuny.edu
>> web: http://scholar.library.csi.cuny.edu/~volschot
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: gretl-users-bounces(a)lists.wfu.edu [mailto:gretl-users-bounces@lists.wfu.edu] On Behalf Of Charles Koss
>> Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2011 10:53 AM
>> To: Gretl list
>> Subject: [Gretl-users] GRETL versus Stata: Time Series
>>
>> I have used Stata and GRETL for univariate and multivariate time
>> series analyses. And today decided to share my opinion with the
>> community. I have concluded that GRETL is a reliable software for time
>> series analyses while Stata capabilities are still in development. An
>> example, Stata can estimate Vector Error Correction Models, however,
>> it can not provide estimates of the standard errors for the IRF's.
>> Therefore, I can not recommend Stata fot this type of analysis whereas
>> the opposite is true for GRETL.
>>
>> In Stata, some time series estimators are written by users and then
>> down the road, the company incorporates them in the core software. An
>> example, rolling command for rolling regression. Other examples of
>> this practice, cusum and prais commands.
>>
>> So, I would like to know some papers that compare the time series
>> capabilities of Stata and GRETL in order to have a better
>> understanding of the two softwares. Any help is appreciated.
>>
>> Thank you,
>>
>> Charles
>>
>>
>> --
>> Charles Koss
>> http://charlesonnet.blogspot.com
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>Message: 4
>Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 12:32:50 +0200 (CEST)
>From: "Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti" <r.lucchetti(a)univpm.it>
>Subject: Re: [Gretl-users] GRETL versus Stata: Time Series
>To: Gretl list <gretl-users(a)lists.wfu.edu>
>Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1104281212070.26778(a)ec-4.econ.univpm.it>
>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15"
>
>On Tue, 26 Apr 2011, Charles Koss wrote:
>
>> So, I would like to know some papers that compare the time series
>> capabilities of Stata and GRETL in order to have a better
>> understanding of the two softwares. Any help is appreciated.
>
>A special issue of the Journal of Statistical Software is in preparation,
>in which a number of statistical packages (including stata and gretl) are
>compared with respect to their implementation of linear state-space
>models, Kalman filtering etc.
>
>On Wed, 27 Apr 2011, Thomas Volscho wrote:
>
>> Does anyone have any plans to (or has anyone) implemented the Sims-Zha
>> model (their Bayesian approach to VAR?)
>
>Not exactly the same thing, but I have a semi-finished product
>implementing SVARs (but all inference is frequentist, nothing Bayesian). A
>few people who had expressed interest received some early versions. I plan
>to turn it into a proper function package when I have the time.
>
>On Wed, 27 Apr 2011, Summers, Peter wrote:
>
>> FWIW, I've toyed with the idea of translating some of my Bayesian (VAR &
>> other) code into gretl, but haven't for a couple reasons: 1) I haven't
>> had the time, and 2) a lot of this (including Sims-Zha) is available in
>> R and therefore accessible via gretl. So this is potentially
>> re-inventing the wheel. It does seem, though, that it would be fairly
>> easy to implement some basic BVAR functionality in gretl, and I'd be
>> willing to look more closely at that if there's demand (not before this
>> summer though).
>
>See above. If you're interested in my SVAR package, I can send it to you.
>Actually, it would be nice to co-operate on this.
>
>On the subject of re-inventing the wheel: sure, no-one needs a bazillion
>buggy implementations of the same functionality, although you can't stop
>people from writing their own mp3 player just for fun. But when it comes
>to scientific software, having multiple _free_ implementations of a
>procedure is, in my view, a good thing. We all know how buggy software can
>be, and being able to compare results from independent implementations is
>tremendously useful, in my view, both to the practioner and the coder (who
>often coincide). Moreover, I don't mean to diss the R community, but often
>R packages are of a much worse quality than core R (IMO outstanding); so,
>the mere existence of an R package that claims to do something does not by
>itself guarantee that it works properly.
>
>On Wed, 27 Apr 2011, Charles Koss wrote:
>
>> The last post in this thread generated some questions:
>>
>> What incentives could be created for individuals that cooperate with
>> the development of GRETL?
>>
>> How to align those incentives to promotion (tenure) and salaries of
>> those individuals that cooperate in this open source community?
>
>Well, speaking for myself, my primary driving factor was fun. I've been
>helping Allin for a few years now and it's been a great gig. Of course,
>you also get added benefits, but in my case it was primarily for fun and
>the satisfaction you get out of doing something that other people find
>useful (as opposed to publishing, on a reputable journal, a clever paper
>that nobody is ever going to read, let alone find useful for anything).
>
>However, in the future we plan to shift gretl's development model more and
>more towards the implementation of new features through function packages
>and add-ons, written in gretl's own scripting language rather than in C, a
>bit like R and Stata do. If this development model matures, package
>writers who do something interesting and non trivial may have a good
>publishing opportunity on specilised journals like the Journal of
>Statistical Software, Computational Economics, etc.
>
>
>Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti
>Dipartimento di Economia
>Universit? Politecnica delle Marche
>
>r.lucchetti(a)univpm.it
>http://www.econ.univpm.it/lucchetti
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12 years, 12 months
updating gretl on OS X
by Allin Cottrell
I posted earlier some links to discussions of problems that OS X
users are having updating various apps. Here's a further thought
after digesting what I've read.
I believe this is an OS X bug, pure and simple. The point seems
to be that if an app defines certain files within its package as
read-only, then -- even after the user has authenticated him or
herself in response to a prompt from the OS -- updating the
package will fail. This despite the fact that the same user is
able to blow the whole currently-installed package away with no
problem. That's just inconsistent.
The gretl package contains various files marked as read-only, and
I'm not going to change that. For example, it's natural that as an
ordinary user you're not allowed to change the data files from the
Ramanathan textbook (though you're welcome to save changed
versions under another name).
In earlier versions of OS X this wasn't a problem: the same rights
that allowed you to delete the entire gretl installation also
allowed you to overwrite that installation with a new version.
Apple needs to get its act together with regard to the Darwin
equivalent of "sudo" operations on Linux.
I don't mind putting a note on the web page for gretl on OS X
alerting users to the fact that they may have to delete their
previous gretl installation before updating to a new version, but
that's as far as I'm willing to go to cater to broken behavior of
the OS.
Allin
12 years, 12 months
Re: [Gretl-users] Strange Behaviour Updating Gretl on Mac OS/X
by Allin Cottrell
On Tue, 26 Apr 2011, Berend Hasselman wrote:
> I also run Gretl on Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.7 Normally I use
> my own build of Gretl. I first ran my own build and quit Gretl.
> Then downloaded Allin's build and installed it (by dragging to
> /Applications). Started Gretl without problems. Quit Gretl and
> quit X11.
>
> I tried to reinstall my own build and then got the message you
> have mentioned (some items are blocked). I tried several times
> and kept getting the error message.
>
> But the weird thing is you can delete Gretl.app from
> /Applications without any error message. And then I installed my
> own Gretl without any further error messages.
That matches my own (recent) experience with OS X, though I'm
pretty sure there was a time when didn't get that "items are
blocked" message.
> I wouldn't be surprised if this is Finder getting confused about
> something or other.
Yes, on the face of it, it looks as if the Finder is confused over
permissions.
Allin
12 years, 12 months
Re: [Gretl-users] Strange Behaviour Updating Gretl on Mac OS/X
by Allin Cottrell
On Sun, 24 Apr 2011, Henrique Andrade wrote:
> Recently I noticed that the Gretl updating procedure is a lit bit different.
> In the past, all I needed was to drag the file Gretl.app (inside the
> gretl-intel.dmg file) to my Applications folder. Now I need firstly to
> delete the older version and then copy the new one to Applications folder.
>
> Now, if I try to update in the old way Mac OS/X tells me the file is blocked
> and I have no permission to overwrite Gretl.app (I'm the only administrator
> of my machine).
>
> Is this an expected behaviour?
Well, it's what OS X now seems to do (at least part of the time).
The gretl installer hasn't changed; the behavior of OS X has. If
you can figure out how exactly OS X has changed in this respect
(e.g. via google) perhaps we can find a workaround.
Allin Cottrell
12 years, 12 months
Re: [Gretl-users] a somewhat peculiar question
by Allin Cottrell
On Mon, 25 Apr 2011, Charles Koss wrote:
> At first thought, it was freak but now I see it cool. What is the
> brown edge in the left side of the logo?
It's a tree; Hansel and Gretl are in the forest.
AC
12 years, 12 months
