[Gretl-users] more on scatterplot OLS fits
Just an additional point on Jack's remark.
It is not that the OLS fit is simply NOT SHOWN on a scatterplot when the
slope is NOT SIGNIFICANT: the option to hide (or show) an OLS fit DOES
NOT EVEN EXIST on the dialog box you get when you edit a scatterplot.
Now, with this, I do have an issue! Why take this option away from the
user? Perhaps it should default to NOT plotting an OLS line when the
slope is insignificant BUT the option should be THERE when you edit the
graph.
John
I agree with Sven. I'd rather have it turned off by default in any case, with
the option of plotting it if wanted. After all, if the data points align on a
stright line by themselves, the least squares interpolation gives little more
information, no?
Riccardo "Jack" Lucchetti
Dipartimento di Economia
Facoltà di Economia "G. Fuà"
Ancona