Dear S-plus users,
I got ten reactions on my question about Ox and S-plus as suitable candidates to
replace Gauss.
Thanks to everyone.
1. Ruud Koning sent the following web site, where several packages are compared
as to speed and other properties.
http://www.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de/~stst/ncrunch/index.html
>From this we can learn that Gauss is faster than Matlab and S-plus in several
respects, and that Ox is faster than Gauss in several respects. Speed is a
useful property in simulation studies..
2. Ruud Koning also suggests that a modern version of Gauss will be available
soon and that there may be no need to change after all.
3. About five people (not an impressive number) report that they are econometric
researchers and are using S-plus for some purpose. In most cases they use other
packages for other purposes.
If there were no budget constraint we would of course use S-plus and R and
Matlab and Gauss and Ox and ...
4. Some people have never heard of Ox. For information , see either
http://www.timberlake.co.uk/software/ox/ox.htm
or
http://www.nuff.ox.ac.uk/Users/Doornik
5. What is special about econometrics?
There are several statistical models and methods developed in the context of
economic problems that are treated in journals like Econometrica, Journal of
Econometrics, Econometric Theory, Journal of Applied Econometrics and others.
Extensive surveys can be found in the Handbook of Econometrics, published by
Elsevier Science. So far there are four volumes. The fifth is in preparation.
Again I wish to thank all who reacted.
Teun Kloek
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