Last Friday and Saturday the second R / Finance conference took place in Chicago on the UIC campus. As a co-organizer, it was a great pleasure to see so many users of R in Finance---from both industry and academia---come to Chicago to discuss and shar...
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R and the Next Big Thing
I've been travelling for the past few days (for the R/Finance 2010 conference in Chicago), so I'd missed much of the reaction to AnnMaria De Mars' article last week where she claimed that "R is an epic fail". Understandably, that inflammatory statement provoked many reactions from the R community on Twitter and in the blogosphere. (I suspect the fact...
Thoughts on LSPM from R/Finance 2010
I just got back from R/Finance 2010 in Chicago. If you couldn't make it this year, I strongly encourage you to attend next year. I will post a more comprehensive review of the event in the next couple days, but I wanted to share some of my notes spec...
Simulating Dart Throws in R
Back in November 2009 Wired wrote an article about some grad students who decided to try to stochastically model throwing darts. Because I don’t actually read printed material I didn’t see the article until a couple of months ago. My immediate thought was, “hey, I drink beer. I throw darts. I build stochastic models. Why
Historical / Future Volatility Correlation Stability
Michael Stokes, author of the MarketSci blog recently published a thought-provoking post about the correlation between historical and future volatility (measured as the standard deviation of daily close price percentage changes). This post is intended...
Poor man’s pairs trading…
There is a central notion in Time Series Econometrics, cointegration. Loosely it refers to finding the long run equilibrium of two non-stationary series. As the most know non-stationary series examples comes from finance, cointegration is nowadays a tool for traders (not a common one though!). They use it as the theory behind pairs trading (aka
New version of R package futile released
The latest version of futile was released to CRAN yesterday. This release broke out the various functions into self-contained sub-packages …
New R User Group in Chicago
While there's been an informal coterie of R users in the Chicago area for some time (notably the fine folks behind the successful R/Finance conferences) there hasn't been a formal R User Group. Until now, that is. JD Long has taken the plunge and announced the new Chicago R User Group on meetup.com. If you're in the Chicagoland area,...
UCLA and LA RUG talks on R and C++ integration
We spent last week in the LA area and had a generally good time out west. I was able to sneak in two talks and a group discussion, thanks to the help by Jan de Leeuw (and everybody at UCLA's Stats department) as well as by Szilard Pafka representing th...
UCLA and LA RUG talks on R and C++ integration
We spent last week in the LA area and had a generally good time out west. I was able to sneak in two talks and a group discussion, thanks to the help by Jan de Leeuw (and everybody at UCLA's Stats department) as well as by Szilard Pafka representing ...
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
