The R package oro.dicom contains data input/output functions for medical imaging data that conform to the Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) standard, part of the Rigorous Analytics bundle.The latest version of oro.dicom (0.3.3) con...
This is the start of analyzing the Federal Reserve and Banking data mentioned in my "A Christmas Miracle". The file is a combination of summary data and actual data from each of the 400+ banks that recieved funds from the Federal Reserve during 2007-20...
Here at the dancing economist, we wish to educate our followers on the finer points of economics and this includes econometrics and using R. R as mentioned previously is a free statistical software that enables regular people like us to do high end eco...
As my finance term paper, I investigated an interesting question where I tried to identify macroeconomic variables that explain the returns on equities. Much of the debate has already taken place on this topic which has given rise to two competing theo...
I expect there will be many reviews and wish lists for R this year, with many of them focusing on either running speed or dealing with large data sets. However, most issues that I would like to see tackled in … Continue reading →
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The pre-X’mas puzzle in Le Monde weekend edition is about “magical numbers” having as digits all digits between 0 and n (at least once) and being multiple of all digits between 1 and (n+1). Easy, isn’t it?! I thought so while driving down to the Alps on Saturday and (on Monday early morning) I tried 
I realized that I made a mistake in the calculation of the market weight portfolio from the previous post. I hold constant the portfolio weights through time. These should be adjusted after each day as prices change. The market portfolio re...
I realized that I made a mistake in the calculation of the market weight portfolio from the previous post. I hold constant the portfolio weights through time. These should be adjusted after each day as prices change. The market portfolio re...
Quite some time ago now, I wrote this function to read some *.gef files into R. "gef" stands for Geotechnical Exchange Format. Details on this data format can be found at http://www.geffiles.nl/, as well as several software tools. I had a long list of ...
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
