On Mon, 27 May 2024, g s wrote:

> May I ask, would it be a lot of work to modify gretl to have the menu drop down factorized summary statistic display the values showing all the digits before the decimal point, and then showing, say, 5 digits, after the decimal point? Since gretl actually does store the complete value, that would make it very convenient for users.

> So, for example, then summary statistic for my data set could show the mean for Australia-Oceana as 1557590.272727 instead of 1.5576e+006.

It wouldn't be a great deal of work, but -- sorry -- it would be crazy. Showing 13 significant digits would be _way_ beyond the accuracy of the original data, and doing this for several of the statistics shown by the "summary" command would push the line length way beyond what's reasonable.

What I think we should do is make a special case of original data that take the form of very large integers (e.g. population, and not many other things), and show corresponding large integers for mean, median, minimum and maximum. So, for example, 1557590 for the Australia-Oceania mean population.

> And one more. If possible, could the show all statistics for the menu drop down factorized summary statistics include summary?

I take you mean, show the sum. That's not a statistic that's often wanted, and it's very easy to compute if you do want it, so I think probably not.