On Tue, 11 Jan 2011, Sven Schreiber wrote:
I'm not sure [gretl's previous indexation of \alpha
restrictions] was a bug. Of course it's all just a matter of
convention, but given that for beta-indexing in this case we
also had the CI relation number as the leading index, there's a
case to do that for alpha, too, which was the old behavior.
OK, maybe I was wrong. We could revert my change and add an
explicit note to the manual regarding the indexation convention
used. Anyone else have thoughts on this?
Part of my motivation for the switch was that if you give a
restriction such as "a[1] = 0" (with a single index) this means
that all EC coefficients in equation 1 are restricted to zero, or
variable 1 is weakly exogenous. And it seemed more intuitive that
if you give just one index it should be read as the leading one,
not the trailing one. However, I take your point that this is a
matter of convention; all that really matters is that the manual
is clear on what we're doing.
(Either way, I don't want to mess with our existing \beta
indexation at this point.)
Allin