Global InformationGretl information
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| Developer(s) | the gretl team |
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| Initial release | 31 January 2000 |
| Stable release | 2024a[1] 
/ 5 April 2024 |
| Preview release | Through git
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| Repository |
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| Written in | C |
| Operating system | Cross-platform |
| Available in | Multilingual (11) |
| Type | Statistical software |
| License | GNU GPLv3 |
| Website | gretl |
gretl is an open-source statistical package, mainly for econometrics. The name is an acronym for Gnu Regression, Econometrics and Time-series Library.
It has both a graphical user interface (GUI) and a command-line interface. It is written in C, uses GTK+ as widget toolkit for creating its GUI, and calls gnuplot for generating graphs. The native scripting language of gretl is known as hansl (see below); it can also be used together with TRAMO/SEATS, R, Stata, Python, Octave, Ox and Julia.
It includes natively all the basic statistical techniques employed in contemporary Econometrics and Time-Series Analysis. Additional estimators and tests are available via user-contributed function packages, which are written in hansl.[2] gretl can output models as LaTeX files.
Besides English, gretl is also available in Albanian, Basque, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Czech, French, Galician, German, Greek, Italian, Polish, Portuguese (both varieties), Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Turkish and Ukrainian.
Gretl has been reviewed several times in the Journal of Applied Econometrics[3][4][5] and, more recently, in the Australian Economic Review.[6]
A review also appeared in the Journal of Statistical Software[7] in 2008. Since then, the journal has featured several articles in which gretl is used to implement various statistical techniques.
- ^ Allin F. Cottrell (5 April 2024). "gretl 2024a released". Retrieved 13 April 2024.
- ^ "gretl function packages".
- ^ Baiocchi, Giovanni; Distaso, Walter (2003). "GRETL: Econometric software for the GNU generation". Journal of Applied Econometrics. 18: 105–110. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.466.7942. doi:10.1002/jae.704.
- ^ "GRETL: 1.6.0 and its numerical accuracy". Archived from the original on 2012-12-16.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ^ Mixon Jr, J. Wilson; Smith, Ryan J. (2006). "Teaching undergraduate econometrics with GRETL". Journal of Applied Econometrics. 21 (7): 1103–1107. doi:10.1002/jae.927.
- ^ Tarassow, Artur (2019). "Practical Empirical Research Using gretl and hansl". Australian Economic Review. 52 (2): 255–271. doi:10.1111/1467-8462.12324. S2CID 195431406.
- ^ Rosenblad, Andreas (2008). "gretl 1.7.3". Journal of Statistical Software. 25 (1): 1–14. doi:10.18637/jss.v025.s01.