Last week I had the opportunity to spend a few days at the Institute for Statistics and Mathematics of the WU Vienna / Wirtschaftsuniversitaet Wien. On Thursday, I gave a seminar on Rcpp and RInside introducing all the recent work with Romain on making...
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The Kalman Filter For Financial Time Series
Every now and then I come across a tool that is so bogged down in pages of esoteric mathematical calculations, it becomes difficult to get even a simple grasp of how or why they might be useful. Even worse, you exhaustively search the internet to find ...
Introduction to using R with org-babel, Part 1
This post originally appeared on my Wordpress blog on May 23, 2010. I present it here in its original form. In my opinion, the description of orgmode by its creator as a tool "for keeping notes, maintaining ToDo lists, doing project planning,...
Introduction to using R with org-babel, Part 1
This post originally appeared on my Wordpress blog on May 23, 2010. I present it here in its original form. In my opinion, the description of orgmode by its creator as a tool "for keeping notes, maintaining ToDo lists, doing project planning,...
Tutorial: Principal Components Analysis (PCA) in R
Found this tutorial by Emily Mankin on how to do principal components analysis (PCA) using R. Has a nice example with R code and several good references. The example starts by doing the PCA manually, then uses R's built in prcomp() function to do the s...
robot (SPX) DNA Management Techniques
Yes, this is related to trading, but no, it is not my thesis on why the Euro is going to parity. Instead, it is sort of a workshop for robot(SPX) developers on how to organize their digital DNA. As you begin to use programming as a money extraction
Graphing using R
Long-time readers of the Stubborn Mule will know that charts are a regular feature here. Almost all of these charts were produced using the R statistical software package which, in my view, produces far superior results to the most commonly used graphing tool: Excel. As a community service to help rid the world of horrible
Sweave for Reproducible Research and Beatiful Statistical Reports
Frank Harrell, chair of the Biostatistics department here at Vanderbilt, is giving a seminar entitled "Sweave for Reproducible Research and Beautiful Statistical Reports" tomorrow, Wednesday, May 12, 1:30-2:30pm, in the MRBIII Conference Room 1220. This tutorial covers the basics of Sweave and shows how to enhance the default output in various ways by using: latex methods for converting R...
Videos on Data Analysis with R: Introductory, Intermediate, and Advanced Resources
If you want to learn about R through videos, there are now a large number of options.This post provides links to many of these video under the headings of:(a) What is R?(b) Introductory R, and(c) Intermediate and Advanced R.What is R?If you are evaluat...
Videos on Data Analysis with R: Introductory, Intermediate, and Advanced Resources
If you want to learn about R through videos, there are now a large number of options. This post provides links to many of these video under the headings of: (a) What is R? (b) Introductory R, and (c) Intermediate and Advanced R. What is R?If you are...
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
