[Gretl-devel] Bug in the new quantile regression function

Allin Cottrell cottrell at wfu.edu
Thu May 15 10:16:34 EDT 2008


On Thu, 15 May 2008, andreas.rosenblad at ltv.se wrote:

> First, thanks for the new quantile regression function in gretl. 
> It looks great.

Glad you like it!

> However, I found a bug (using the Windows snapshot from 2008-05-14):
> 
> 1. Using the GUI, open the Ramanathan data file "data 4-1".
> 2. Choose Model > Robust estimation > Quantile regression...
> 3. Set price as dependent and srft, bedrms, baths as independent
> 4. Set 0.25 0.50 0.75 as desired quantiles
> 5. Press OK: The program freezes

Thanks for the report.  The freeze is happening inside the Fortran 
routine rqbr.  I'll try to figure out what's going on.

Allin.


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