Var autoregression
by Brian Revell
Hi
A warning.
the Model Var Autoregression in the GUI can crash out Gretl -no error
message re estimation no. of variables too few or anything -it just
disappears from the screen. So all preceding work done without the outputs
saved in the session (not necessarily only from previous Var
autoregressions ) will be lost. Mine is the latest Gretl version.
Brian J Revell
Professor Emeritus
5 years, 1 month
plot saving error
by Stefano
The steps followed are pretty trivial: I run the code pasted below,
looked at the plot in its window, right-clicked to open the menu and
asked to save the plot as EPS. Now I cannot reproduce it myself, so I
guess it must have been some sort of mess in the memory management
(using Windows 10 that would not be surprising at all). In fact that's
what I thought rightaway, I posted the question mostly in case it may be
of interest for developers. Thanks for your interest!
Stefano
<hansl>
plot
options with-lines
literal set nokey
literal set xrange [15:85]
literal FRF(x) = 7.984 -0.522*x + 0.011*x**2 -0.00007*x**3
printf "plot FRF(x)"
end plot --output=display
</hansl>
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plot saving error
by Stefano
Gretl 2020e, build date 2020-11-21, Gnuplot as bundled with Gretl, OS
Windows 10. Some time after posting the message I tried again and it
worked all right, so the error
("C:\Users\pc\AppData\Roaming\gretl\.gretl-8664\graph.1: No such file or
directory") appears to be random, which in some respects is even worse...
thanks
Stefano
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plot saving error
by Stefano
dear all,
after asking to save a plot as EPS file in a personalised directory I
got the following error message:
"C:\Users\pc\AppData\Roaming\gretl\.gretl-8664\graph.1: No such file or
directory". "Copy to clipboard" "display PDF" produce the same result.
Any hints?
thanks,
Stefano
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vec() and vech(): row-major vs. column-major
by Sven Schreiber
Hi,
I just found out that gretl's vec() and vech() functions have an
important difference: As duly documented, vec() stacks the columns (as
expected), but a little bit to my surprise vech() stacks the (relevant
parts of the) rows of the input. The latter property is not very
explicitly documented. (It just talks about the upper triangle of the
matrix, which at least is a hint in that direction.)
So basically to get the Wikipedia-style convention of the vech function
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vectorization_(mathematics)#Half-vectorization)
we need to work on the transpose, vech(m').
This message just serves to share this "discovery". I'm not saying we
should change vech's behavior because that would break too much stuff.
But maybe a more explicit note should be added to the documentation.
(You may wonder why this matters at all, given that the input typically
should be symmetric; but I had to work with some code that just fills
the lower triangle of a matrix and then expands this to a symmetric
matrix. So the input there wasn't symmetric, by design.)
thanks
sven
5 years, 1 month
operation on arrays
by Stefano
This is entirely trivial, but anyway: I realised that the manual somehow
underplays the possible operations on arrays ("At present only one
operation is available for arrays as a whole, namely appending", p. 78),
as subsets of an array can be extracted using matrix syntax, as in
<hansl>
strings S = array(3)
S[1] = "a"
S[2] = "b"
S[3] = "c"
strings Q = S[1:2]
</hansl>
which starting from the array "a","b","c" produces the array "a","b".
This actually came handy to me (I started with a panel of units and
their labels in an array, then dropped some units and needed to redefine
the array), so it may be worth it mentioning it in the manual.
bye
Stefano
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Authoring a contributed function package: your winter corona break project?
by Sven Schreiber
Hi everybody,
we have close to 150 contributed function packages that can be
downloaded from within gretl. For the list see either on the web
http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/gretl/cgi-bin/gretldata.cgi?opt=SHOW_FUNCS,
or from the gretl menus choose File/Function packages/On server...
For those who don't know it yet, such packages are written in the Hansl
scripting language, which is quite easy and intuitive but has become
very powerful over the years. It mainly supports a functional
programming paradigm, it is not object-oriented for example. For more
information about the language see the "Hansl primer" PDF document under
gretl's Help menu.
Now if you're sitting in a place of the world where the pandemic is not
under control (for example Europe or the Americas) and are getting bored
from all this working-from-home and everything being closed, why not
implement some missing econometric feature in the form of such a
function package? Of course there's a learning curve involved, but in
principle it is not very difficult. We have an official Gretl Function
Package Guide also in PDF format under the Help menu. And last year
Stefano contributed another very nice step-by-step tutorial:
http://gretl.sourceforge.net/gfnguide/gfn_for_dummies.html
(If you know of more resources like that one, please share them here!)
For any further questions just use this mailing list, especially if the
answer is likely to be of general interest. Apart from that you could
also ask some packaging-related questions to the team of package
moderators if you prefer to not discuss it in public; apart from the
gretl heroes Allin and Jack the moderation team consists of Artur
Tarassow and myself. (Please grab our email addresses from previous
mailing list postings, I don't want to repeat them here inline. And
please only function packaging-related questions off-list, no other
general gretl topics.)
As a final remark, for a first function package I would suggest to keep
it simple and not aim for something overly complex. A package can always
be upgraded later (they also have version numbers). An example of a very
small function package is "criteria" from Allin himself, which basically
just has 18 lines of code. But a package also shouldn't get much smaller
than that :-)
cheers
sven
5 years, 1 month
split dependent variable
by Stefano
The problem reminds me of the issue "forecasting the aggregate vs
summing disaggregate forecasts". Hendry and Hubrich (2011) "Combining
Disaggregate Forecasts or Combining Disaggregate Information to Forecast
an Aggregate",Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, conclude on the
basis of the RMSFEs (no tests) that direct forecasting of the aggregate
is better than combining disaggregate forecasts. In this persepctive you
could use a Diebold-Mariano test.
Stefano
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Re: split dependent variable: looking for a test
by Sven Schreiber
Am 01.12.2020 um 16:09 schrieb Summers, Peter:
> Hi Allin,
>
> Your logic sounds similar to that of the PE Test (MacKinnon, White & Davidson, 1983, J of Econometrics) for comparing models with y vs log(y). I hadn't heard about it until a couple weeks ago while I was teaching about LM tests. Here's a link to the R petest() function: https://www.rdocumentation.org/packages/lmtest/versions/0.9-38/topics/petest.
Hi, such a test is also available in gretl as part of the contributed
package BoxCoxFuncForm, me being a coauthor there. The reference we have
included in the helpt text is:
Testing Linear and Loglinear Regressions against Box-Cox Alternatives
Author(s): Russell Davidson and James G. MacKinnon
Source: The Canadian Journal of Economics / Revue canadienne
d'Economique,
Vol. 18, No. 3 (Aug., 1985), pp. 499-517
Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/135016
However, I'm not sure if that is what Allin was asking for.
cheers
sven
5 years, 1 month
