I'll probably just try to do an adequate job of it for now (the paper needs to be ready for a conference), but I can redo the analysis before submitting it to a journal.
 
I think though that I can pretty much do everything I need to do using the arbond estimation (and I've found sources for the data I'll needed), with the exception of the categorical problem--mind you, I can always use the time-honored cop-out of taking the log of the number of deaths.
 
Scott
 
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From: Sven Schreiber <svetosch@gmx.net>

>
> Am 13.03.2008 15:47, scottd.orr@comcast.net schrieb:
> > One more question: my dependent variable arguably should be
> > categorical. Is there any way to deal with this with gretl's panel
> > routines, and if not, any reasonably doable way I could do this outside
> > of the canned routines?
>
> uh-oh -- any other fancy cutting-edge stuff you want to do?
>
> seriously, it is my impression by now that if you do all that properly
> what you've asked about, your study may qualify for publication in a
> pretty highly ranked journal.
>
> OTOH, maybe you're not planning to do it properly and/or you're
> underestimating the time needed for such modeling :-)
>
> To ! answer your question: I'm not aware of such possibilities in gretl
> (but as I said before I'm not the panel specialist here, and I have been
> corrected before).
>
> cheers,
> sven
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