[Gretl-users] Re: Gretl: means by categorical variable
On Mon, 27 May 2024, g s wrote:
May I ask, would it be a lot of work to modify gretl to have the
menu drop down factorized summary statistic display the values
showing all the digits before the decimal point, and then showing,
say, 5 digits, after the decimal point? Since gretl actually does
store the complete value, that would make it very convenient for
users.
So, for example, then summary statistic for my data set could show
the mean for Australia-Oceana as 1557590.272727 instead of
1.5576e+006.
It wouldn't be a great deal of work, but -- sorry -- it would be
crazy. Showing 13 significant digits would be _way_ beyond the
accuracy of the original data, and doing this for several of the
statistics shown by the "summary" command would push the line length
way beyond what's reasonable.
What I think we should do is make a special case of original data
that take the form of very large integers (e.g. population, and not
many other things), and show corresponding large integers for mean,
median, minimum and maximum. So, for example, 1557590 for the
Australia-Oceania mean population.
And one more. If possible, could the show all statistics for the
menu drop down factorized summary statistics include summary?
I take you mean, show the sum. That's not a statistic that's often
wanted, and it's very easy to compute if you do want it, so I think
probably not.
Allin