time I was writing one of the earliest academic websites in the country; the only information about writing web pages was to be found on the CERN site itself. For those wanting some light relief feel free to check out the web archive.
The gauss website http://scottie.stir.ac.uk/~fri01/gauss/ then stayed unchanged for the next five years, as I moved between various jobs, eventually leaving academic economics for the commercial sector. However, following my move to Trig Consulting in 2001, my involvement in econometric issues has increased again. Hence I decided to review the guide and republish it, particularly as in 2002 I started teaching GAUSS again.
The guide has now been redesigned entirely for the web, making it rather more user-friendly. Unfortunately, I do not intend to produce a single document available for downloads. I have also been working on a more practical physical manual, so the exercise sets will not reappear here.
The pages are still undergoing checking for GAUSS 4.0 and 5.0. Please check the news page for progress. You will also find there details of ongoing changes. Although the physical manual only gets changes at long intervals, I intend to maintain and update the on-line manual much more regularly.
Apart from the layout, those who have downloaded the guide over the last five years will find the content little changed. This is because GAUSS itself has changed relatively little, concentrating on its core strength of providing an interface to a remarkably efficient matrix manipulation engine. Most development work has gone into the window interfaces, add-ons, and the development of additional tools such as the Enterprise Edition and the GAUSS Engine.
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The training seminars were initiated under the auspices of the Centre for Computing in Economics at Bristol University and the ESRC.
I would like to thank Elizabeth Roberts of the Department of Economics at the University of Stirling who since 1990 has been a stalwart of econometric research there. She provided advice and comments on the original version of the manual and assisted in the Stirling classes.
I would also like to thank Prof. David Bell, also of the Stirling Economics Department, who was my co-lecturer on the courses and devised the original set of exercises.
In the UK GAUSS training courses are organised by Timberlake Consultants, along with the distribution of GAUSS. We are investigating the development of on-line training. To be kept up to date on this, please contact me.
Finally, GAUSS is a trademark of Aptech Corporation.
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