Re: [Gretl-users] gretl discriptive statistics for MBA students

On Sun, 2 Feb 2014, Logan Kelly wrote: > This is a question that probably has not come up before (and may be a > new feature request) because I doubt that many researchers using gretl > need it much. > > Is there an easy way for my MBA student to generate the descriptive > statistics including the standard error of the mean and confidence > intervals for the mean. There are a number of ways to do this already, > for example one could regress a series on a constant. But this is a bit > more difficult to explain to my MBA students who still do not understand > why they can't just use Excel. Regressing x on a constant, as you suggest, would probably be the "idiomatic" way for an econometrician to do this. Of course it's pretty simple -- and might be of pedagogical use -- to write a script to do it longhand: