Re: [Gretl-users] Variable generation full vs. restricted sample

Am 23.07.2014 14:49, schrieb Allin Cottrell: > On Wed, 23 Jul 2014, Sven Schreiber wrote: > >> obviously it's absolutely essential to be able to create variables only >> for the currently active subsample. But I'm wondering, is there another >> (easier) way to generate variables also for the full workfile sample >> range without temporarily removing and then later re-applying the sample >> restrictions? >> >> Perhaps something like "series mynew = log(income) --full" if you >> understand what I mean by that. > > Yes, understood, but No, there's no such option. The presumption is that > if you want to define series for the full data range you do so before > sub-sampling. > Right -- what about the $sample accessor. I like the clever way how it differentiates between non-used and out-of-sample observations after estimations, but it would also be useful to get a binary dummy series just for the active sample without any estimates. Of course a workaround would consist of doing some trivial OLS just to access $sample afterwards...