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## getSymbols Extra

November 25, 2013
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The getSymbols function from the quantmod package is an easy and convenient way to bring historical stock prices into your R environment. You need to specify the list of tickers, the source of historical prices and dates. For example following commands will download historical stock prices from yahoo finance for ‘RWX’, ‘VNQ’, ‘VGSIX’ symbols: Now,

## Getting Started with Mixed Effect Models in R

November 25, 2013
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Getting Started with Multilevel Modeling in R Getting Started with Multilevel Modeling in R Jared E. Knowles Introduction Analysts dealing with grouped data and complex hierarchical structures in their data ranging from measurements nested within participants, to counties nested within states or students nested within classrooms often find themselves...

## Mapping Foodborne Chicago Reports

November 25, 2013
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I help out with a project called Foodborne Chicago, where we search twitter for people in Chicago mentioning "food poisoning" and @reply to them with a link where they can file a report with the city of Chicago's Department of Public Health. The applic...

## Ranked Choice Voting

November 25, 2013
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The city of Minneapolis recently elected a new mayor. This is not newsworthy in and of itself, however the method they used was—ranked choice voting. Ranked choice voting is a method of voting allowing voters to rank multiple candidates in order of preference. In … Continue reading →

## Just for fun: attractors in R

November 24, 2013
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I have a borderline unhealthy obsession with attractors. I thought I got it out of my system, but here we are. For whatever reason, I felt like making some in R.You can find the R code here. It uses the attractor function to define density in a ma...

## R: Mapping Super Typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan) Track

November 24, 2013
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After reading Enrico Tonini post, I decided to map the super typhoon Haiyan track using OpenStreetMap, maptools, and ggplot2. If mapping with googleVis was possible with 13 lines only, that can also be achieved with the packages I used; but because I p...

## New R package emdatr: Global Disaster Losses from the EM-DAT Database

November 22, 2013
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The International Disaster Database EM-DAT from the Center for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED, Belgium) is often used as a reference for losses on human life and property resulting from natural and man-made disasters. This databas...

## Results of an Informal Survey of R users

November 22, 2013
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# This post does some basic correlation analysis between responses# to the survey I recently released through R Shiny at:http://www.econometricsbysimulation.com/2013/11/Shiny-Survey-Tool.html # I have saved the data from the survey after completin...

## Easy Laplace Approximation of Bayesian Models in R

November 21, 2013
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Thank you for tuning in! In this post, a continuation of Three Ways to Run Bayesian Models in R, I will: Handwave an explanation of the Laplace Approximation, a fast and (hopefully not too) dirty method to approximate the posterior of a Bayesian model. Show that it is super easy to do Laplace approximation in R, basically four...

## Comparison Among Groups with Francis Parameterization

November 21, 2013
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$Comparison Among Groups with Francis Parameterization$

In my last post, I suggested that the Francis parameterization of the von Bertalanffy growth model may be used in cases where the typical parameterization did not converge (likely due to issues related to highly correlated parameters and data with … Continue reading →