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Econometric Software: A User's View

Author(s) -

Jeffrey K. MacKie–Mason

Publication year - 1992

Publication title -

the journal of economic perspectives

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 9.614

H-Index - 196

eISSN - 1944-7965

pISSN - 0895-3309

DOI - 10.1257/jep.6.4.165

Subject(s) - task (project management) , focus (optics) , software , product (mathematics) , computer science , econometric model , gauss , operations research , econometrics , economics , management , engineering , mathematics , physics , geometry , quantum mechanics , optics , programming language

For the social scientist, software is a tool, not an end in itself. My objective in this review is to help practicing economists decide which tool will best get the task done. To do this, I report on how seven programs performed on each of six different econometric projects. I focus on Limdep, RATS, SAS, Stata, SST, and TSP and I more briefly review Gauss, which is a rather different product. Comments on other aspects of the programs are sprinkled throughout.

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