Is there any difference between .xls and .mat

Dynare help (legacy posts)
#1

dear users:

  1. I estimate one simple model and use 35 observations stored in data.xls. but when i beging estimate routine, dynare says:
    …
    The rank condition is verified.
    Loading 34 observations from data.xls
    …
    Estimation::mcmc: Posterior (dsge) IRFs…
    Estimation::mcmc: Posterior IRFs, done!
    Loading 34 observations from data.xls
    …

why less than 35 observations? and i set [nobs=35], that problem is still remain.

and when i restore the same 35 observations in data.mat, dynare says:

Estimation::mcmc: Posterior (dsge) IRFs…
Estimation::mcmc: Posterior IRFs, done!
Loading 35 observations from data.mat

  1. loading different numbers of observations , why?
#2

Please try Dynare 4.4.3. There was a bug in 4.4.2 that prevented loading the first observation.

#3

Here is a list of the problems identified in version 4.4.2 and that
have been fixed in version 4.4.3:

  • When loading a dataset in XLS, XLSX or CSV format, the first
    observation was discarded.

:laughing:

thanks a lot, dear jpfeifer