Input to EPP

EPP takes as input a file organised as follows. Each line in this file is a distinct entity. Four kinds of lines are understood:

  1. a blank line (inbed in the table)
  2. a descriptive comment (inbed among parameter estimates)
  3. a parameter estimate,
  4. The table caption.

The first field on each line of input determines the line type. The options are:

comment This line appears in the generated table as a comment
estimate This line appears in the generated table as a parameter estimate
caption This line is the table caption
blank A extra blank line in the table.

Only the first two letters are matched, so these shortforms are allowed: co, es, ca, bl.) On comment lines and on the caption line, the remaining fields are treated as words which make up the comment/caption.

On parameter lines, there are three more pieces of information:

Field 2 label (a string with no spaces in it)
Field 3 free or not (Was it being estimated?)
Field 4 parameter estimate
Field 5 standard error (need not be present when it was not free)