On Wed, 28 Feb 2018, Artur T. wrote:
Am 28.02.2018 um 13:39 schrieb Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti:
> On Wed, 28 Feb 2018, Sven Schreiber wrote:
>
>> Am 28.02.2018 um 11:00 schrieb Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti:
>>> On Wed, 28 Feb 2018, Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Wed, 28 Feb 2018, Artur Tarassow wrote:
>>
>>>>> I think we need (even) more advertisement for the great
'Gretl'
>>>>> project! What do you think about compiling a handy list of research
>>>>> articles for which we guys used gretl.
>>
>>>> Ah, yes, nice idea. Il'll send you mine asap.
>>>
>>> On the other hand, thinking about this a bit more, I wonder whether this
>>> may be counterproductive, sound a bit like an "excusatio non
petita" and
>>> convey the opposite message. Can you imagine a page like this on the R
>>> website?
To be honest, I haven't thought about this perspective at all before. I spoke
to 3 people this afternoon about this. All of them like the idea very much.
R, Matlab and other well-known competitors don't need such advertisement
anymore. Gretl, instead, faces some kind of asymmetric information issue:
Potential users may not be aware of its capabilities and they want to see
some "seal of quality". Showing people some publication record may be such a
"seal of quality".
How about some kind of "Hall of Fame", instead?
Thet'd be a list of good-quality papers in which the hansl/gretl combo was
used in some non-trivial way.
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Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti
Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali (DiSES)
Università Politecnica delle Marche
(formerly known as Università di Ancona)
r.lucchetti(a)univpm.it
http://www2.econ.univpm.it/servizi/hpp/lucchetti
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