Fujiwara, Ghironi and Bilbiie sent me a message saying that
stoch_simul(linear) doesn't report the same results in 4.3 as in the
previous version. But they use it with a nonlinear model!
I check the manual and we say explicitly that LINEAR declares that the
model is linear not to use a linear approximation.
I guess that before version 4.3.0, we forced order=1 when the linear
option was used in stoch_simul. But, as it is both contrary to the
manual and confusing, I would be tempted of forbidding LINEAR as an
option of stoch_simul, but this will break existing *.mod files.
Or we can be nice to users, and keep interpreting LINEAR as identical to
order=1, but we must correct the manual.
What do you think? We may need to check older documentation to
understand how the confusion got about.
Best
Michel