# Monthly Archives: August 2010

## Even Simpler Multivariate Correlated Simulations

August 31, 2010
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So after yesterday’s post on Simple Simulation using Copulas I got a very nice email that basically begged the question, “Dude, why are you making this so hard?” The author pointed out that if what I really want is a Gaussian correlation structure for Gaussian distributions then I could simply use the mvrnorm() function from

## Zurich 2010: R Course for Students

August 31, 2010
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## Map colors

August 31, 2010
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Reader P was kind enough to make us a new color map so I promptly played around with it and other parameters. Need to figure out how to drop the labels and ticks on the “map”  map.axes() is no help. In anycase, I had a day long struggle with my R set up,  its all

August 30, 2010
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I’ve had a wonderful summer, very busy, but now I’ve finally had some time to sit down and program some thing on NppToR that I’ve been wanting to get out.  Thanks to Yihui Xie and his wonderful R script for generating auto-completion files, NppToR now has a dynamic Auto-Completion feature like the Dynamic Syntax generation

## Econometrics and R

August 30, 2010
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Econometricians seem to be rather slow to adopt new methods and new technology (compared to other areas of statistics), but slowly the use of R is spreading. I’m now receiving requests for references showing how to use R in econometrics, and so I thought it might be helpful to post a few suggestions here. A

## Hyper-g priors

August 30, 2010
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$Hyper-g priors$

Earlier this month, Daniel Sabanés Bové and Leo Held posted a paper about g-priors on arXiv. While I glanced at it for a few minutes, I did not have the chance to get a proper look at it till last Sunday. The g-prior was first introduced by the late Arnold Zellner for (standard) linear models,

## The Chosen One

August 30, 2010
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Toss one hundred different balls into your basket. Shuffle them up and select one with equal probability amongst the balls. That ball you just selected, it’s special. Before you put it back, increase its weight by 1/100th. Then put it back, mix up the balls and pick again. If you do this enough, at some

## Stochastic Simulation With Copulas in R

August 30, 2010
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A friend of mine gave me a call last week and was wondering if I had a little R code that could illustrate how to do a Cholesky decomposition. He ultimately wanted to build a Monte Carlo model with correlated variables. I pointed him to a number of packages that do Cholesky decomp but then

August 30, 2010
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Once you've downloaded PDQ with a view to solving your performance-related questions, the next step is getting started using it. Why not have some fun with blocks? Fun-ctional blocks, that is. Since all digital computers and network systems can be considered as a collection of functional blocks and these blocks often contain buffers, their performance can be modeled...

August 30, 2010
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Once you've downloaded PDQ with a view to solving your performance-related questions, the next step is getting started using it. Why not have some fun with blocks? Fun-ctional blocks, that is. Since all digital computers and network systems can be considered as a collection of functional blocks and these blocks often contain buffers, their performance can be modeled...