[Gretl-devel] Presentation of model results

[Sven Schreiber]

Looks good, and of course is doable.

The only thing is that condensed stuff like "sum squared resid" has been
known in English for a long time, so everybody knows what it is. While
in other languages I guess we translators just make up expressions that
occur to us and it is much less clear to the general public how to
expand such abbreviations. But this is just the implication of gretl's
localization, which of course is a good thing; so we boldly go where no
econometrician has gone before...

cheers,
sven

Am 20.11.2008 14:59, Allin Cottrell schrieb:
> Hello all,
> 
> We recently redesigned the presentation of coefficients, standard
> errors, and so on, in the printing of model results in gretl.
> We're now thinking of revamping the presentation of the additional
> results that follow the table of coefficients (i.e., sum of
> squared residuals, R^2, loglikelihood, etc.).
> 
> This has been prompted by Christopher Dougherty, who intends to
> use gretl as the standard software in a new edition of his
> Introduction to Econometrics (Oxford).  He'll be printing a bunch
> of regression results and he asked if we'd consider using a more
> compact format, along the lines of Eviews.
> 
> It's true, our current presentation uses a lot of vertical space.
> I've mocked up an alternative compact presentation and I'd like to
> hear what people think of this.  I'm particularly keen to hear
> from translators, because it could be a problem translating the
> abbreviated strings.
> 
> Please see the example at
> http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/~cottrell/dougherty/model.html
> where I show a given model as displayed by current gretl, the
> proposed modification, and Stata and Eviews output for comparison.
> 
> Note that for a translation of the compact table to work
> correctly, all the abbreviated strings (such as "Mean dependent
> var", "Sum squared resid") should be no greater than 19 characters
> in length.  Does this look doable?
> 
> If translation is not feasible, I'm thinking of including the
> compact presentation as an English-only option -- but obviously it
> would be preferable to maintain consistency across languages if
> possible.
> 
> Allin.
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