Under Octave, having namespaces called “get” and “set” overshadows the builtin
functions with the same names, which are needed for graphics manipulation.
Therefore we go back to the initial function naming scheme, but moving all
those functions under an “accessors” subdirectory.
Among other things, this is a revert of
e4134ab59b and
c5e86fcb59.
Ref. !1655, !1686
The gamrnd fallback under matlab/missing/stats/ does not work under Octave
because the +gamrnd/ folder is not accessible (it has the same name as the
function, which does not work under Octave).
Instead of fixing this, rather make the statistics toolbox a requirement, since
anyways it is very easy to obtain under Octave.
Accordingly:
- do not try to run the unit tests of matlab/missing/stats/ under Octave
- merge the matlab/missing/stats-matlab/ into matlab/missing/stats/, since this
directory is now MATLAB-only.
Also:
- move matlab/distributions/+gamrnd/ under matlab/missing/stats/ for
consistency
- in the manual: remove obsolete link to Octave downloads on the Dynare
website; update URL of Octave Forge
Closes#1638
The 'stable' option of intersect(), which keeps the element order of the first
argument, is not available on Octave. Provide a fallback implementation, and
adapt the code.
By default Dynare will temporarly change Matlab/Octave's path. Added an
option to force Dynare to keep the current path. Also check that the user
did not put dynare/matlab directory with all the subfolders in the path.
With this patch, we do not need to prefix Dynare routines with dyn_ or
dynare_ anymore.
This new routine gives the possibility to obtain a description of the
prior from the command line.
>> prior table
will display a table with the prior mean, prior mode, prior std, prior
bounds and prior HPD interval.
>> prior plot
will plot the prior densities.
>> prior optimize
will trigger the maximization of the prior density and display the
results (often, because of BK conditions or other issues, Dynare is even
not able to get the prior mode).
>> prior moments
will display the moments of the endogenous variables at the prior mode.
>> prior simulate
will run a Monte-Carlo, by sampling from the prior and discarding vector
of parameters such that the steady state does not exist or the BK
conditions are not met, and return an estimate of the effective prior
mass.