Re: [Gretl-users] On Propagation Of GRETL (fwd)
Dear all
I agree. I was a Eviews user and now I am "migrating" to Gretl. In
particular, Eviews does not possibly have a traditional Chinese
version. But I can be a translator for zh_TW.po to make gretl
available in Chinese for Taiwan.
I've done a web page (for myself and for my students) to document the
comparison of some commands between Eviews and gretl.
For example, see
http://yaya.it.cycu.edu.tw/Default.asp?sShowType=content&nID=320600
(though parts of the content are in Chinese)
Something like this can help myself in teaching. I think it can also
help people with experiences of Eviews.
And now I am writing a PDF book of a brief introduction to gretl (in
Chinese) and the free PDF book will be soon freely available over the
Internet.
Let me know if how I can help in the English world.
Yi-Nung
2009/4/29 Allin Cottrell <cottrell(a)wfu.edu>:
Hello all,
I recently heard from a Free Software advocate in India who makes
a good point. His mail reads, in part:
"Though I don't know econometrics I have followed the development
of GRETL with some interest since I am both a teacher and student
of economics from India and a partisan of Free Software.
"However the majority of my friends, colleagues and acquaintances
who are into econometrics don't warm up to GRETL because there is
no step-by-step migration guide from their current econometrics
software to GRETL. I request you to consider including a lengthy
section or brief chapter in the User Manual of GRETL of a
step-by-step migration guide for
1. Migration from Stata to GRETL
2. Migration from SPSS to GTRETL
3. Migration from Eviews to GRETL
"E.g: If AAA is done this way in Stata then AAA is done in that
way in GRETL. If this can be done, I believe an important blow can
be struck at the hegemony of proprietary software in the field of
Econometrics."
I think this is an excellent idea (in particular with regard to
Stata and Eviews). Any volunteers for writing some material on
this? I'm not a good candidate myself since I spend all of my
time on gretl and have relatively little experience working with
proprietary software.
Allin Cottrell
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