I started reading Applied Computational Economics & Finance by Mario J. Miranda and Paul L. Fackler. It is a very interesting book that I recommend to every one of my...continue reading.
Have you ever thought of borrowing some money? A common case is when you have to borrow money for buying a house, which is called a mortgage. Wikipedia (‘Mortgage loan’...continue reading.
We needed up-to-date Malaysian crude palm oil production data. The MPOB provides such data on its website. It remained to write some ugly but somewhat reliable snippet code in Python, the latter...continue reading.
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In econometrics, generalized method of moments (GMM) is one estimation methodology that can be used to calculate instrumental variable (IV) estimates. Performing this calculation in R, for a linear IV...continue reading.
We wanted to have an idea of the general form of the forward curve for London ICE gasoil futures contracts along the year. The R code below plot a forward curve...continue reading.
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Alright, let’s test some parallelization functionalities in R.The machine:MacBook Air (mid-2013) with 8 GB of RAM and the i7 CPU (Intel i7 Haswell 4650U). This CPU is hyper-threaded, meaning (at least...continue reading.
It’s exciting when great people help each other get things done This is a simple networking story, which might not be surprising to some but I was happily surprised by...continue reading.
Thanks to Alyssa Frazee I just learned about the colorout package (Aquino, 2013). It modifies R so that the output is in different colors, making it much more pleasant to...continue reading.
Ramnath Vaidyanathan just released his new R interactive package, rMaps (Vaidyanathan, 2014). The packages relies on the development version of his widely known rCharts package (Vaidyanathan, 2013) as well as...continue reading.
Have you ever wondered whether you can upload files from R to Dropbox and/or Google Docs? I recently asked myself this question while making my most recent Shiny app (more...continue reading.
There are many occasions in my research when I want to create a within group index for a data frame. For example, with demographic data for siblings one might want...continue reading.
ggtern 1.0.3.1 has introduced a new series of geometries to represent known errors in data, they are relatively easy to use and are along the lines of the geom_errorbar(…) and...continue reading.
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There is some secret message hidden in this graph Let’s decode it Resulting in Wishing everyone a Happy New Year 2014, cheers!continue reading.
R is used to perform statistical analysis and doesn’t focus on symbolic maths. But it is sometimes useful to let the computer derive a function for you (and have the...continue reading.
This document details section 12.4.5. Unobserved Heterogeneity Example from Cameron and Trivedi’s book – MICROECONOMETRICS: Methods and Applications. The original source code giving the results from table 12.2 are available...continue reading.
This document details section 12.5.6. Unobserved Heterogeneity Example. The original source code giving the results from table 12.3 are available from the authors’ site here and written for Stata. This...continue reading.
To be able to do RNA-seq research work in large multi-sample studies you have to be able to analyze large files and thus frequently use a powerful computing environment. In...continue reading.
