Using Gretl with Zoom
by Stefano Fachin
I can confirm that using Gretl with Zoom can be complicated (you
cannot open multiple windows, options may freeze, etc.). The problem is
that Zoom is very usable, but not very sophisticated: it simply eats all
available RAM and CPU power, have a look at the Task manager and you
will see. what I mean. As a workaround You can try assigning a high
priority to Gretl from Windows Task manager (Details > right click > set
priority), but still under other programs like MS Teams things seem to
work much better.
good luck
Stefano
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Stefano Fachin
Professore Ordinario di Statistica Economica
Dip. di Scienze Statistiche
Università di Roma "La Sapienza"
P.le A. Moro 5 - 00185 Roma - Italia
Tel. +39-06-49910834
fax +39-06-49910072
web http://stefanofachin.site.uniroma1.it/
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3 years, 1 month
OLS Heteroskedasticity robust estimation with all variants - how consecutive set commands work
by Alecos Papadopoulos
For a simulation study, I need to compute OLS with plain std errors, and
with all versions of heteroskedasticity-robust std errors.
Do I go something like the following? (Essentially I want to know if the
next "set" command on the same thing overrides the previous or whether
the previous needs clearing first)
loop i = 1..100
ols Y Xlist
...
set hc_version 0
ols Y Xlist -- robust
...
set hc_version 1
ols Y Xlist -- robust
...
...
set hc_version 3a
ols Y Xlist -- robust
endloop
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Athens University of Economics and Business
web: alecospapadopoulos.wordpress.com/
scholar:https://g.co/kgs/BqH2YU
3 years, 1 month
Threshold_Panel: v2.0 changed API
by Artur Tarassow
Hi gretl users,
there is version 2.0 of the "Threshold_Panel" out now. The package
implements Bruce E. Hansen's panel-threshold model (JoE, 1999).
Apart from some internal refactoring (increasing computational speed
too!) and bug fixes, the user-interface has changed too for improving
the "user-experience". The most important changes are the first two
bullet points in the following changelog. All details can be found in
the help file as always:
http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/gretl/cgi-bin/current_fnfiles/unzipped/Thresho...
2.0 (March 2021)
- Changed API: Rename function SETUP_THRESH() to estimateTpm() and change
arguments.
- Changed API: Rename function lrplot() by plotTpm() and change
arguments.
- Replace "stop" by errorif() function.
- Fix bug in get_interaction_terms() function for constructing
interaction terms.
- Make use of hdprod() function for computing interaction terms;
results in about +20% gain of speed.
- Internal refactoring and re-formatting (about 5% gain of speed).
- Update help file.
- Improve print-out of tests (formatting)
- Minimum required version is 2020b now.
Best,
Artur
3 years, 1 month
the "coint2rec" package became "johansenrec"
by Sven Schreiber
Hi,
there's a package with a new name on the package download server:
"johansenrec" (.gfn)
But it's basically just the old package coint2rec with a new name,
following the name change of the gretl command from "coint2" to
"johansen". (From the help text: "This package provides stability tests
for the cointegrated vector autoregressive model based on recursive
estimation.")
So if you have any scripts that used coint2rec, you just need to change
your "include" line and the function calls accordingly. The earlier top
level function name was driver_coint2recur and received some criticism
for not being very intuitve, so that is now "johansenrec" as well.
But usage is unchanged!
The old package coint2rec will be retired from the server soon, but of
course if you have downloaded it to your local machines it will just
continue to work there.
thanks
Sven
3 years, 1 month
Saving plot/graph C/C++ api
by riles＠triton.net
Hello
I would like to save a plot/graph as a .png file using the c/c++ api. In order to do this do I need to use header files from the gui folder. In particular do I need to use gpt_control.h, and session.h? If there are an examples on how to save plot/graph as a .png file that would be great, if not an overview on how to go about doing it would be much appreciated.
Thank you
Ryan
3 years, 1 month
Zoom
by Stefano Fachin
When I had my first problems with Gretl under Zoom I asked a rather
knowledgeable IT collegue from my department (the source of the
suggestion to upgrade Gretl in Windows priority settings). He wasn't
very surprised. Apparently Zoom, although nice to use, is rather
rudimentary. For instance, the compression algorithms are rather naive
if compared to MS Teams (which is built upon Skype's engine). So the
bottom line is probably avoiding using it if at all possible (I cannot,
it's the platform of choice of my university - damn it).
best of luck
Stefano
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Stefano Fachin
Professore Ordinario di Statistica Economica
Dip. di Scienze Statistiche
Università di Roma "La Sapienza"
P.le A. Moro 5 - 00185 Roma - Italia
Tel. +39-06-49910834
fax +39-06-49910072
web http://stefanofachin.site.uniroma1.it/
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3 years, 1 month
New version of the PMG package (pooled mean group)
by Sven Schreiber
Hi everybody,
motivated by some examples shown here earlier by Reynaldo we have
updated the PMG contributed function package to version number 1.0. (It
does pooled mean group estimation for large-T panel datasets.) The main
computational news is that the default initial values used for the
estimation algorithm should be better now for most cases. (However,
coauthor Jack also found an example where the old initialization is
actually better, so as the user you get an --expert-- choice and can try
both if needed.)
For scripting there's also a slightly simpler interface function which
is just called PMG(). See the included pdf help file of the package.
As always, you can download and install the new package version directly
from within gretl.
cheers
sven
3 years, 1 month
