tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2198942534740642384.post7280892015939076522..comments2023-10-24T03:16:41.009-07:00Comments on Econometrics Beat: Dave Giles' Blog: Interpolating Statistical TablesDave Gileshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05389606956062019445noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2198942534740642384.post-49463939077514233922018-01-05T10:46:06.878-08:002018-01-05T10:46:06.878-08:00I'm sorry. I didn't mean "uninterest...I'm sorry. I didn't mean "uninteresting" in the sense of not interesting. I meant that it wouldn't contribute to human knowledge because smart people like you already know it, and that it's more technical than fundamental. I thought your suggestions were interesting and clever. <br /><br />I sometimes wish could be licensed to give technical advice on computational methods the way people giving financial advice are. Then you could lose your license for suggesting rectangle rule integration rather than the integration package in R, say. The rectangle rule isn't wrong, but high order integration rules are better. Influencing your colleague to write his/her own integration program from scratch is as wrong as suggesting that a retired person invest her/his savings in bitcoin -- the wrong thing for almost everyone.<br /><br /> lgmhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04798554540232650867noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2198942534740642384.post-50781013547510525752018-01-05T05:01:47.957-08:002018-01-05T05:01:47.957-08:00Sorry that you found the issue uninteresting. Of c...Sorry that you found the issue uninteresting. Of course I agree that we should just use a standard package: see my paragraph that begins, "Of course.........", and the passages that follow.Dave Gileshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05389606956062019445noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2198942534740642384.post-37944390265257070942018-01-04T23:18:44.087-08:002018-01-04T23:18:44.087-08:00This is not the advice I would give. If ordinary ...This is not the advice I would give. If ordinary interpolation (not averaging the two numbers, actual interpolation) the problem is too complex for simple fixes like interpolation in some other variable. The student's time would be better spent looking for a friend with a working computer than puzzling over such an uninteresting question. Your interpolation suggestions are nice, but it's bad advice to ask someone to actually use them -- IMHO.lgmhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04798554540232650867noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2198942534740642384.post-80291395690423400012018-01-03T00:07:08.382-08:002018-01-03T00:07:08.382-08:00"In a sense, the take-away message here is ve..."In a sense, the take-away message here is very simple" - for me, not the one you give at the end, but rather the one you give in between: any econometrics teacher who has not switched yet should be making the new year's resolution to teach students to use statistical software for tasks such as finding quantiles. <br /><br />The confusion in my students when performing exactly the task you are describing here was one of the reasons for me to ditch tables once for good.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15353085826653165029noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2198942534740642384.post-6602900787683195892018-01-01T13:54:50.437-08:002018-01-01T13:54:50.437-08:00Thanks - and to you too! Here's to some regula...Thanks - and to you too! Here's to some regular blogging this year!Dave Gileshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05389606956062019445noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2198942534740642384.post-39754352515382251402018-01-01T13:33:07.206-08:002018-01-01T13:33:07.206-08:00Happy New Year DaveHappy New Year Davenot trampishttp://nottrampis.blogspot.com.au/noreply@blogger.com