The commands defined below may be executed in the command-line client program. They may also be placed in a "script" file for execution in the GUI, or entered using the latter's "console mode". In most cases the syntax given below also applies when you are presented with a line to type in a dialog box in the GUI (but see also gretl's online help), except that you should not type the initial command word — it is implicit from the context. One other difference is that some commands support option flags, but you cannot enter these in GUI dialog boxes; generally there are menu items which achieve the same effect.
The option flags shown below are in "long form", with a somewhat mnemonic term preceded by two dashes. There are also corresponding short forms: these are shown in Table 13-4.
The following conventions are used below:
A typewriter font is used for material that you would type directly, and also for internal names of variables.
Terms in italics are
place-holders: you should substitute something specific,
e.g. you might type income
in place of
the generic xvar.
The construction [ arg ] means that the argument arg is optional: you may supply it or not (but in any case don't type the brackets).
The phrase "estimation command" means a command that generates estimates for a given model, for example ols, ar or wls.
Section and Chapter references below are to Ramanathan (2002).