![Stata-like Marginal Effects for Logit and Probit Models in R [2]](http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/timeseriesireland.wordpress.com/640/)
My thanks to those who emailed comments and suggestions for my ‘mfx’ function, I’m happy that I could fill a void for some people. I also received a request/suggestion from Tony Cookson, along with a helpful fix for a bug in the code, to include an option that would allow the user to specify values 
Although this blog’s primary focus is time series, one feature I missed from Stata was the simple marginal effects command, ‘mfx compute’, for cross-sectional work, and I could not find an adequate replacement in R. To bridge this gap, I’ve written a (rather messy) R function to produce marginal effects readout for logit and probit 
This post examines conditional heteroskedasticity models in the context of daily stock price data for Allied Irish Banks (AIB), specifically how to test for conditional heteroskedasticity in a series, how to approach model specification and estimation when time-varying volatility is present, and how to forecast with these models; all of this is done in R, 
This is my first post on the R-Bloggers feed. R-Bloggers is an excellent collection of R-related blogs and sites for R enthusiasts. Add it to your bookmark list, for those who haven’t already done so, and my thanks to those who maintain the site ...
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As a follow-up to my post examining the stationarity of the new property price index, this post will briefly look at some of the dynamics of mortgage debt and property prices; all data is monthly, from the beginning of 2005 to March 2011. This will also serve as an illustration of the ‘vars‘ and ‘urca‘ 
On Friday, the CSO released a new house (and apartment) price index, for the national, Dublin, and national excluding Dublin regions. The release has been noted and covered by the great Irish Economy and Namawinelake blogs. I want to briefly look at some of the statistical properties of this series in more detail. Below is 
One prominent feature of early degree-level macroeconomics courses is the concept of ‘potential output’, which one could roughly define as the level of output (GDP) at which inflation is not ‘accelerating’. Potential output is of interest to macroeconomists when analysing the question of output gaps and macroeconomic stabilisation policies by governments, whether that be in 
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
