[Gretl-users] Re: Request for cdemean() on lists (GUI appearance as well)

Am 12.11.2019 um 17:59 schrieb Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti: > On Tue, 12 Nov 2019, Sven Schreiber wrote: > > Yes, why not. I think I would like 'stdize' best. (Don't know what > > exactly scale does in R, but it sounds even more general.) > > Proposal: > > stdize > > Output:     same as input > Arguments:     Y (matrix or list) >         flag (integer) > > Returns the demeaned version of the data contained in Y, optionally > scaling each series/column by a normalizing factor, as dictated by the > optional argument flag. If flag = 0 (the default), no scaling is > performed. Actually, for a name 'stdize' I would like to have the division by the SD as the default. Otherwise go back to the name 'center' or 'demean' or whatever. > Otherwise, the sample standard deviation is used, with two possible > variants: with or without the degrees-of-freedom adjustment (flag = 1 > or 2, respectively). The last time we discussed this Allin didn't want to have the two options rolled into one argument, although I didn't really understand why. Let's see what his reaction is going to be this time ;-)