GAUSS 8.0 includes a number of new features and enhancements which dramatically increase your ability to optimize your programs.
Features and Enhancements
- Sparse matrix data type
- GAUSS Profiler
- Sparse matrix and structure support in GAUSS Data Archives
- Several new GDA functions
- New functions for testing hypotheses about constrained models
- New standard deviation functions
- Support for adding structures to libraries
- Support for extra library paths
- Improved file/line number handling in error returns
The new sparse matrix data type allows for the use of sparse matrices in many matrix functions and operators. New functions have also been added for creating and manipulating sparse matrices.
GAUSS Profiler
The GAUSS Profiler is a significant new feature that will allow you to optimize your programs rapidly. The GAUSS Profiler will analyze your GAUSS programs and produce a report of how much time is spent on each line and in each called procedure. This gives you the information needed to optimize your programs.
Hypotheses Testing Functions
Two new functions in GAUSS implement a new method for testing hypotheses in models with constraints on parameters. Current methods for computing standard errors for constrained parameters are only approximate; these new functions are the only correct method for computing these standard errors, and they are only available in GAUSS at this time.
Additional New Features
- Sparse matrix and structure support in GAUSS Data Archives, including support in existing GDA functions as well as adding new functions
- Support added for reading from and writing to GDA's created on other platforms, providing an easy and efficient way to transfer data between platforms
- New GDA functions for saying all or a subset of the variables in a workspace to a GDA and for loading all of the variables in a GDA into a workspace
- New standard deviation functions
- Support for adding global structures to libraries
- Support for extra library paths added
- Improved file/line number handling in error returns
- Other new functions added
Available now for Windows (32-bit), LINUX (32-bit and AMD 64-bit), and Sun SPARC (64-bit); coming soon for Windows (Itanium 64-bit), Mac Power PC (32-bit and 64-bit) and Intel (32-bit), and HP UX 11 (32-bit).
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