gretl

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gretl

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Basic data

Maintainer Allin Cottrell
developer The gretl team
Publishing year January 31, 2000
Current  version 2020d
( August 6, 2020 )
operating system platform independent
programming language C.
category Statistics , econometrics
License GPL Version 3 ( Free Software )
German speaking Yes
gretl.sourceforge.net

gretl is a free stats - software , mainly for econometrics . The name is an acronym for G nu R egression , E conometrics and T ime-series L ibrary . gretl can be used as a stand-alone program via a user interface and can also be used with other statistics and econometrics packages , e.g. B. X-12-ARIMA , TRAMO / SEATS or R . gretl is written in C and uses the GIMP toolkit for the graphical user interface . The user interface is available in various languages, including German . Gnuplot is used to create graphics and LaTeX , among others, is used to display numerical results and models . Operation via the command line is possible, as is scriptability with its own script language hansl .

gretl has been discussed several times in the Journal of Applied Econometrics and once in the Journal of Statistical Software .

Supported data formats

gretl has its own, fully documented, XML -based data format . It can import data in other formats, for example ASCII files, files in CSV format and various database formats .

See also

literature

  • Malitte, Jürgen, Schreiber, Sven (2019): Understanding econometrics with Gretl. Springer Gabler. ISBN 978-3-662-58275-6

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Allin Cottrell: gretl 2020d released . August 6, 2020 (accessed August 6, 2020).
  2. Giovanni Baiocchi, Walter Distaso: GRETL: Econometric software for the GNU generation . In: Journal of Applied Econometrics . tape 18 , no. 1 , February 2003, p. 105–110 , doi : 10.1002 / jae.704 .
  3. A. Talha Yalta, A. Yasemin Yalta: GRETL 1.6.0 and its numerical accuracy . In: Journal of Applied Econometrics . tape 22 , no. 4 , June 2007, p. 849-854 , doi : 10.1002 / jae.946 .
  4. ^ J. Wilson Mixon Jr, Ryan J. Smith: Teaching undergraduate econometrics with GRETL . In: Journal of Applied Econometrics . tape 21 , no. 7 , November 2006, pp. 1103-1107 , doi : 10.1002 / jae.927 .
  5. Andreas Rosenblad: gret1 1.7.3 . In: Journal of Statistical Software . tape 25 , no. 1 , March 2008 ( online ).