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Why or why not Ox ?
Advantages
• It’s free for academic use. This means you can download it
and install it at home without breaking the law.
• It’s fast and uses well-designed numeric routines that main-
tain accuracy.
• It’s quite powerful. A good selection of built in mathemati-
cal functions, maximization routines, numeric integration and
differentiation, etc., are included.
• It’s extensible. You can write your own extensions, and
there are downloadable add-on packages for estimating vari-
ous models.
• The professional version is quite cheap.
• The graphical interface (GiveWin) of the Pro version is very
nice.
• You can call Gauss procedures under Ox.
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