Dear Derin.
I tell you why I am happy of having moved to Ox from Gauss.
I used to do my work in Gauss (until version 4), but as I wanted to program
code for multivariate GARCH, Gauss could not manage array of matrices (now
also Gauss do that). Secondly, there was this excellent MSVAR software I
needed to use.
I think Ox has an excellent syntax based on C (with its extensions the most
used programming language, there must be a reason). I think it is easy to
read and to learn.
Ox, if you want it, is also object oriented, and it is very easy to make
reusable code or packages to share with others.
There is not so much documentation on Ox as for Gauss for two reasons: 1)
Gauss is still more widespread, 2) the official documentation of Ox is
Excellent and public (on the web).
Graphs in Ox just look better and are very easy to integrate into LaTeX
documents.
Ox is fast, but also Gauss is pretty quick.
Ox may be extended in C.
It is easy to make simple GUIs with Ox.
Ox is used by great Econometricians such as Harvey, Hendry, Davidson,
Koopman, Shephard, etc.
It is very easy to get bugs corrected and interact with Ox developers.
Best,
Matteo
Matteo Pelagatti
Assistant Professor
Dept. of Statistics
University of Milan-Bicocca
Tel. +39 02 64485834
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Da: The ox-users list is aimed at all Ox users
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] Per conto di Derin
Inviato: mercoledì 4 aprile 2007 12.38
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Oggetto: OX and Gauss
Dear Ox Users,
I am a PhD student who tries to choose between Gauss and Ox.
I have tried to ask some people which one to choose, I have read some
documents to guide myself in chossing between the two, but still could not
make myself clear on which one to choose.
I try to base my choice, say, with respect to documentation.
When I do a simple search on google, I recieve many documents for Gauss.
When I do the same for Ox, I receive less.
This gives me the impression that Gauss documentation is more rich and if I
have a problem these documents may help me out in future.
And since I receive less documents for Oxmetrics, I become hesitant to
choose to learn Oxmetrics.
I know that Oxmetrics is more fast than Gauss, but that is basically all
what I know ox is better over.
I ask myself, why I should choose to learn Oxmetrics instead of Gauss.
Could someone guide me a little in choosing between the two.
Somehow I feel like going ofr oxmetrics but I just dont know what
to take into account in my choice.
I would very much appreciate some advices.
With Kind Regards,
Derin
P.S: I have acess to both programs, so the price is not an issue
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