Re: [Gretl-users] Johansen question
Am 02.05.2011 16:04, schrieb Charles Koss:
In my opinion, the additional discusions about econometric methods
is
tied to the methods available in GRETL, so, I think is unnecesary to
create another list. In addition, on average, the amount of emails is
low in comparison to other lists.
Unmistakenly, when you use a a method in a software, is going to be
totally related to the underlying econometric theory. Since the
existence of the former is conditional on the later. Therefore, the
discussion of both topics go hand in hand and deserve to be discussed
simultaneously.
Cheers,
Charles
Two points related to this:
Before creating a new list for discussion of econometrics, maybe it
would be worthwhile to check if another list already serves the same
purpose (see for example
http://www.feweb.vu.nl/econometriclinks/mailing/). Even if we come to
the conclusion that there is a niche to be filled, maybe it would make
sense to at least coordinate with the R people?
OTOH, I'm not overly enthusiastic to have general econometric
discussions on gretl-users. It's true that the traffic here is not high,
and this is also due to the fact that in the past off-topic (=not
gretl-specific) questions have been discouraged. But this low traffic
makes it possible that a relevant number of subscribers are actually
following most (if not all) threads. I fear that if general econometric
questions are discussed (which I believe will be quite basic most of the
time) then some people might pay less attention to the list in general,
with detrimental effects on the gretl-specific issues.
But maybe I'm paranoid.
cheers,
sven