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Open-source interactive software for econometric analysis
The motivation for its designed was to provide the means by which some time-series econometric procedures that were difficult or unavailable in other packages could be undertaken. Such procedures include Impulse Response Analysis with bootstrapped confidence intervals for VAR/VEC modelling.