Original Code# It is often times difficult to solve for the expected value of a variable in closed form.# However, using computers it can be easy to approximate.# Imagine (for whatever reason) you would like to calculate the expected value of exp(x) wh...

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Triangle, square, pentagonal, hexagonal, heptagonal, and octagonal numbers are all figurate (polygonal) numbers and are generated by the following formulae: Triangle P3,n=n(n+1)/2 1, 3, 6, 10, 15, ... Square P4,n=n2 ...

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Before tackling the main subject, two quick notes:I did not post for quite a while in part because I followed the Coursera online course Introduction to Computational Finance and Financial Econometrics.  It was a nice refresher, extremely well pre...

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Dear R-Users, a question: I am the author of the ‘qpcR’ package. Within this, there is a function ‘propagate’ that does error propagation based on Monte Carlo Simulation, permutation-based confidence intervals and Taylor expansion. For the latter I recently implemented a second-order Taylor expansion term that can correct for nonlinearity. The formulas are quite complex

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nice ggplot intro tutorial. Just run the commands, about 6 pages = flexible 1-3 hours of learning, depending how much reading you want to pair it with by Ramon Saccilotto

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The folks over at is.R() brought along an "adorable Turkey". I guess we'll thank them for their gift - and pardon the Turkey. Personally I thank them for a bucket of hints and tricks I freely used and will continue to do so.Tal brought us a great ...

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In many circumstances, you might want to connect R directly to a database to store and retrieve data.  If the source database is an Oracle database, you have a number of options: ROracle RODBC RJDBC   Using ROracle should theoretically…

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One of the most popular posts on this blog is the very first one, solving the issue of mapping certain ranges of values to particular colors in heatmaps. Given the abundance of ggplot2 usage in R plotting, I thought I’d … Continue reading →

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Today’s post is mostly to wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving. We will be taking the rest of the week off, and will return on Monday. Below is some code to reproduce the adorable Turkey above; enjoy! https://gist.github.com/4122464

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I want to follow up with Extending Gold time series post by showing how we can extend Commodity time series. Most Commodity ETFs began trading in 2006, please see the List of Commodity ETFs page. I will use DBC – PowerShares DB Commodity Fund, one on the most liquid Commodity ETFs as my proxy for

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