The mean(…, 'omitnan') syntax does not exist before R2015a. Use nanmean
instead (either provided by the statistics toolbox, or by our fallback under
matlab/missing/stats/).
The TeX option crashes MATLAB R2014a run with "-nodisplay" option
(as is done from the testsuite). We disable the TeX option in that case.
Since we can’t directly test whether "-nodisplay" has been passed, we test for
the "TOP_TEST_DIR" environment variable, which is set by the testsuite.
Note that it was not tested whether the crash happens with more recent MATLAB
versions, so when OLD_MATLAB_VERSION is increased, one should make a test
before removing this workaround.
- lsqnonlin takes less time in Andreasen toolbox due to different handling of bounds; our approach is better (objective is smaller for RBC model)
- user-specified weightning matrix does work
- qz_criterium is set to 1+e-6 to allow for unit-roots (but observables need to be stationary)
- informative message is printed that NaN values in data moments are replaced by mean
- estimated_params_bounds work as well as informative message when parameters are not calibrated
- SMM at any order without pruning works
- SMM with pruning works for orders 1,2,3; for orders above 3 simult_.m throws an error that pruning is not available
- Analytical standard errors for GMM and Bayesian estimation is included
- dirname is not needed
- Remaining to dos are updated
- Set pruning to false as default, for GMM we turn it on for order>2 and display a message for the user that we do so
- Provide error if users try GMM with order > 3
- For SMM, order > 2 and no pruning, simult_.m uses Dynare++ routines which require a seed
Johannes Pfeifer
Sébastien Villemot
Willi Mutschler