[Gretl-users] Forwarded message from Allan Bart

[John C Frain]

SHAZAM has been available on PCs for about 20 years and was possibly the
first econometrics package available on PC.  I used a version that was
available on three 360K diskettes that could be run on a twin floppy disk PC
with no hard drive and which could complete most of the then current
econometric estimation techniques and tests.  It developed over the years
into a very good package with a comprehensive coverage of econometrics and
statistics.  For a long time the interface to the program betrayed its
mainframe origins and its data handling facilities were primitive to say the
least.  A later interface introduced ODBC facilities which allowed the
import of data from EXCEL but this was not user friendly.

My mail use of SHAZAM was to access various statistical facilities that
might have been difficult to access in RATS or possibly GAUSS which were the
other main programs that I would have used over the years.  I no longer
use SHAZAM as I find that  my needs are better met with a mixture of Gretl
and R and RATS.

JMulti is a very specialised program for particular type of time series
analysis.  Data transfer to it from Gretl could be achieved by simply
editing data exported from Gretl in ASCII format in a text editor.  If one
needed the facilities in JMulti I do not think that this should cause any
particular hardship.    I would certainly use JMulti in this way perhaps
working in parallel with the facilities in R.

John C Frain
Economics Department
Trinity College Dublin
Dublin 2
Ireland

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On 20/07/06, Allin Cottrell <cottrell at wfu.edu> wrote:

> For some reason the following got posted to gretl-users-bounces;
> I'm sending it on to the list. Anyone familiar with Shazam?
>
> Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 12:27:21 -0400
> From: Allan_Bart at ibi.com
> To: gretl-users-bounces at ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu
> Subject: The practice of Economeytics Judge and Hill
>
> Hello,
>
> I own this book and I was wondering if Gretl is up to
> the state of Shazam of a couple years ago.
>
> Allan Bart
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