# Monthly Archives: September 2009

## Comparison between 15 different cities…

September 6, 2009
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The other day I was thinking about how expensive will it be to live in London (as I'm going to live in London for almost one year), and also thinking about how expensive are the cities where some of my best friends live and I got a report by UBS called "Prices and Earnings 2009", it's all...

## Global Mean Sea Level Trends

September 6, 2009
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In this post, I show an R script that downloads the University  of Colorado, Boulder’s 1993-2009 global mean sea level (msl) change (link) data, converts the ASCII file into a usable R data frame, calculates moving average and msl change  trend rate and develops a trend  chart that shows msl change  and trend rates

## RQuantLib 0.3.0 Windows build snag

September 6, 2009
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Yesterday's upload of RQuantLib 0.3.0 contained one minor oversight: I had failed to update src/Makefile.win to the new and enlarged set of source files. The proper fix (of using wildcards and implicit rules) was simple, and Uwe Ligges kindly rebuilt...

## RQuantLib 0.3.0 Windows build snag

September 6, 2009
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Yesterday's upload of RQuantLib 0.3.0 contained one minor oversight: I had failed to update src/Makefile.win to the new and enlarged set of source files. The proper fix (of using wildcards and implicit rules) was simple, and Uwe Ligges kindly rebuilt R...

## RQuantLib 0.3.0 Windows build snag

September 6, 2009
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Yesterday's upload of RQuantLib 0.3.0 contained one minor oversight: I had failed to update src/Makefile.win to the new and enlarged set of source files. The proper fix (of using wildcards and implicit rules) was simple, and Uwe Ligges kindly rebuilt...

## RQuantLib 0.3.0 released

September 5, 2009
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Earlier this evening, I rolled up a new version of RQuantLib. It has been pushed to CRAN and Debian, and source and binary version should appear on the respective mirror networks in due course. This version, the first in a new '0.3.*' release seri...

## RQuantLib 0.3.0 released

September 5, 2009
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Earlier this evening, I rolled up a new version of RQuantLib. It has been pushed to CRAN and Debian, and source and binary version should appear on the respective mirror networks in due course. This version, the first in a new '0.3.*' release series, ...

## RQuantLib 0.3.0 released

September 5, 2009
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Earlier this evening, I rolled up a new version of RQuantLib. It has been pushed to CRAN and Debian, and source and binary version should appear on the respective mirror networks in due course. This version, the first in a new '0.3.*' release seri...

## Polynomial regression techniques

September 5, 2009
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Suppose we want to create a polynomial that can approximate better the following dataset on the population of a certain Italian city over 10 years. The table summarizes the data:$$\begin{tabular}{|1|1|}\hline Year & Population\\ \hline 1959&4835\\ 1960&4970\\ 1961&5085\\ 1962&5160\\ 1963&5310\\ 1964&5260\\ 1965&5235\\ 1966&5255\\ 1967&5235\\ 1968&5210\\ 1969&5175\\ \hline \end{tabular}$$First we import the data into R:Year Population Now we create the dataframe...

Suppose we want to create a polynomial that can approximate better the following dataset on the population of a certain Italian city over 10 years. The table summarizes the data:$$\begin{tabular}{|1|1|}\hline Year & Population\\ \hline 1959&4835\\ 1960&4970\\ 1961&5085\\ 1962&5160\\ 1963&5310\\ 1964&5260\\ 1965&5235\\ 1966&5255\\ 1967&5235\\ 1968&5210\\ 1969&5175\\ \hline \end{tabular}$$First we import the data into R:Year Population Now we create the dataframe...