On Sun, 14 Jun 2009, Allin Cottrell wrote:
A further response to Nicolai Striewe's question in
http://lists.wfu.edu/pipermail/gretl-users/2009-May/003346.html :
There are three circumstances in which gretl deliberately drops
regressors from a specification given by the user:
1. (all models) the variable is all zeros
2. (all models) the variable is exactly collinear with
other included regressors
3. (panel data, fixed effects estimator) the variable
is time-invariant
If a regressor is dropped when none of these conditions is
satisfied, that's a bug (unless I'm forgetting any other
legitimate conditions, though I don't think so).
4. Logit/probit models, if a perfect predictor is spotted.
Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti
Dipartimento di Economia
Università Politecnica delle Marche
r.lucchetti(a)univpm.it
http://www.econ.univpm.it/lucchetti