Gretl
[ˈɡrɛtl]Meaning
Upper German given name; acronym for Gnu Regression, Econometrics and Time-series Library
Background Story
Gretl is recorded, in a user-submitted entry, as a feminine given name in Upper German. The same spelling is used for gretl, an open-source statistical package mainly for econometrics, whose name is an acronym for Gnu Regression, Econometrics and Time-series Library.
Temperament
Variations
Greta, Gretchen
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