Re: [Gretl-users] skewness and kurtosis
Am 30.05.2011 10:21, schrieb a.bala:
Le 29/05/2011 18:53, Henrique Andrade a écrit :
> I think we could just use an option flag in the "summary" command
> (like we already have):
> *summary --matrix="matrix name"*
Why not? I find this option more useful and suggestive than a function
package.
Just to be clear: There are the new (not-yet-approved) functions
skewness() and kurtosis(). The function package would bind these and
other functions together, essentially adding another API to those
functions.
IMO functions and commands serve different purposes, there is no real
competition between them and they are not substitutes.
I don't have anything against additional function packages, but I would
be against adding this to gretl (=its namespace) by default, it's just
redundant.
(BTW jack: is this excess kurtosis or not? If it is, I would be in favor
of a name change. Also, while I like the explicit names [up to 8
characters], I don't understand why at the time "dynpanel" was
considered too long, but "skewness" and "kurtosis" are not :-)
thanks,
sven