On Tue, 7 Sep 2010, sahana shreeya wrote:
does GRETL can perform linear interpolation to convert annual to
quarterly data.
Please send a new message with an appropriate subject line rather
than tagging onto an existing thread, if your message is not
relevant to that thread.
Gretl has everything you need, in terms of matrix functionality,
to implement the Chow-Lin interpolation method (Chow, G., Lin, A.,
1971, Best linear unbiased interpolation, distribution, and
extrapolation of time series by related series, Rev. Econ. Stat.
53, pp. 372-375). I have experimented with quarterly to monthly
interpolation. But it is not a built-in method in gretl, or in
other words there is no pre-programmed command to do this. This
may be added at some point.
Allin Cottrell