The Rmetrics Association is once again holding its annual Workshop and Summer School on Computational Finance and Financial Engineering at Meielisalp (on Lake Thune in Switzerland) from June 26-30. Now in its fifth year, the workshop consists of Summer School-like tutorial sessions and a user/developer meeting: Both focus on topics from "Computational Finance and Financial Engineering" and on the...
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Can you do better than cap-weighted equity benchmarks?
We're on our way to Chicago for the annual conference for R users in Finance, R/Finance 2011. Revolution Analytics is proud to once again sponsor this conference, and during the sponsor lunch session at noon on Saturday, we're honoured to have Guy Yollin show how the big-data capabilities of Revolution R Enterprise can be used for quantitative finance. Here...
Program announced for R/Finance 2011
R/Finance, the conference devoted to users of R in the financial sector, takes place every year in Chicago. The program has just been announced for R/Finance 2011 (to be held April 29 and 30), and it's jam-packed with talks from on automated trading, financial risk, hedge ratios, stochastic volatility, and much, much, more. Here's the announcement from the organizers:...
Reminder: useR! 2011 abstracts, earlybird registration deadline April 1
If you're planning to attend the worldwide R user conference useR! 2011, don't forget that April 1 (this Friday) is the deadline for submitting abstracts for contributed talks and posters. Early-bird discounts for attendee registrations expire on Friday as well. (Revolution Analytics is a proud sponsor of useR! 2011, and chief scientist Lee Edlefsen is one of the keynote...
Risk-Opportunity Analysis: Houston
I will be attending Ralph Vince's risk-opportunity analysis workshop in Houston this weekend. I'll be in town Friday-Monday. Drop me a note if you're in the area and would like to meet for coffee / drinks.
Student travel grants for useR! 2011
For students planning to attend the annual worldwide R user conference, useR! 2011, travel grants are available to help defray the cost of attending the conference in the UK. CRISM is offering bursaries for accommodation and conference fees, and Revolu...
Abstracts for R/Finance 2011 due February 15
If you're planning to go to R/Finance 2011 in Chicago (and if you're doing quantitative finance with R, you definitely should), time is running out to submit your abstract for contributed talks. The best part of R/Finance is learning about all the interesting ways R is used to analyze financial data, so why not share your experiences as you...
Webinar on Portfolio Design, Optimization and Stability Analysis, Jan 26
We're very excited to host a new webinar from some of the leading researchers in portfolio design: Diethelm Würtz and Mahendra Mehta for the Rmetrics Association. This webinar will give an overview on current and recent developments and tools for portfolio design, optimization and stability analysis with the R/Rmetrics software environment. This webinar will review content available in the...
Travel grants and prizes for R/Finance 2011
If you've been thinking about heading to Chicago in April for the R/Finance conference, here's another reason to go: posting for the committee, Dirk Eddelbuettel announced last week that thanks to a favourable response from sponsors, the conference organizers can now offer: a competition for best paper, which given the focus of the conference will award for both an...
Webinar: Revolution R is 100% R and More
I'll be hosting a webinar tomorrow (Wednesday) aimed at R users who want to know more about how Revolution R Enterprise extends open source R for big data, Web services, multi-core processing, debugging and more. For R users at schools and universities, I'll also explain how you can download and use Revolution R Enterprise free of charge. The full...
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
