This is the third post in the Backtesting in Excel and R series and it will show how to backtest a simple strategy in R. It will follow the 4 steps Damian outlined in his post on how to backtest a simple strategy in Excel.Step 1: Get the dataThe ...
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How to backtest a strategy in R
This is the third post in the Backtesting in Excel and R series and it will show how to backtest a simple strategy in R. It will follow the 4 steps Damian outlined in his post on how to backtest a simple strategy in Excel.Step 1: Get the dataThe ...
Le Monde puzzle [#7]
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The mathematical puzzle from the weekend edition of Le Monde from a few weeks ago was not too hard to solve by induction but my R code failed miserably! The puzzle was as follows: A calculator is broken in such a way that it starts by exhibiting 0, then pressing 4, 6 or 0 keeps 
A Request for Foursquare Data
I’m trying to collect data sets that showcase how the classical statistical distributions appear in modern contexts. I’ve already got some data that shows how the gamma distribution appears in video game scores, and now I’m hoping to find an example where the exponential distribution
Aquamacs 2.2 and ESS
News of the latest release of Aquamacs, version 2.2, appeared this week in my echo area. Given the opportunity to procrastinate, I dropped everything and upgraded; returning to work, I noticed that the version of ESS shipped with Aquamacs 2.2 is ESS 5...
R inside Qt: A simple RInside application
The RInside package makes it pretty simple and straightforward to embed R, the wonderful statistical programming environment and language, inside of a C++ application. This uses both the robust embedding API provided by R itself, and the higher-level...
Because it’s Friday: Do Celebrities Follow the Half Your Age Plus Seven Rule?
Remember the Dating Equation from a while back, that formula that determines the socially acceptable bounds for the age of a female companion given the age of the male partner? Well, the crack data analysis team at Revolution Analytics decided to take the 100 hottest celebrity couples of 2010, and create a scatterplot of the couple's ages (using R),...
Loading CSV with Date and Time into Zoo in R
Sometimes you are facing time series which has both date and time property in one column in CSV file. In this case you need to pass additional parameter into read.zoo function: View Code RSPLUS1 z <- read.zoo("/path/to/file/test.csv&...
Grey’s Anatomy Network of Sexual Relations
This all began with an introductory presentation about social network analysis to a group of medical students. What better way to grab their attention than with attractive, fake doctors having sex on television? Naturally this led to the dense network … Continue reading →
MCMC with errors
I received this email last week from Ian Langmore, a postdoc in Columbia: I’m looking for literature on a subject and can’t find it: I have a Metropolis sampler where the acceptance probability is evaluated with some error. This error is not simply error in evaluation of the target density. It occurs due to the 
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
