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