On Thu, 27 Apr 2023, Sven Schreiber wrote:

Hi,

I'm observing something strange working with the grunfeld.gdt sample datafile in the GUI. This is with the latest Windows snapshot. The dataset has units 1 to 10, and time periods 1935 through 1954, so T = 20 (fully balanced).

I go to Sample / Set range; it shows N=10, T=20, NT=200. OK.

I click on the "down" arrow next to the end period 1954, to leave out the last year. The number jumps to 1953 alright, but now it says T=18 (two down). When I click on "up" to get back to 1954, then T=19 allegedly.

Next, different but related problem (having freshly reloaded the dataset): in the sample range setter, I now click "up" next to the _starting_ period 1935 to get rid of the first time period. It changes to 1936, but the count T=20 doesn't change. And after clicking "OK" the sample isn't changed.

What you're seeing there is "off by one" stuff, due to an internal confusion between the case where "panel time" is defined (years, quarters or whatever, as in grunfeld.gdt) and the case where it's just a matter of periods 1 to T. That's now fixed in git and snapshots.

Finally, in the console I type "smpl year > 1935 --restrict --time" without having checked the required syntax, and gretl crashes on me. (I now know it's not correct; instead "smpl 1936 1954 --time" works OK.)

Insufficient error-checking in the relatively new panel sampling code. That's now fixed in git; snapshots will follow.

Allin
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