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...ting with PhD work in London. As preparation I would like to get to know R a little bit better. For Stata there are tons of books, however, can you recommend a book for R? I have some substantiated econometrics knowledge, so it should be more a how-to book. Best regards Thiemo --- Thiemo Fetzer, Economist http://freigeist.devmag.net http://www.devmag.net

...le docs' Forms to conduct surveys online. Multiple choices questions are coded as comma separated values. For example, if the question is like: 1. What magazines do you currently subscribe to? (you can choose multiple choices) 1) Fast Company 2) Havard Business Review 3) Business Week 4) The Economist And if the subject chose 1) and 3), the data is coded as a cell in a spreadsheet as, "Fast Company, Business Week" I read the data with read.csv into R. To analyze the data, I have to change that string into something like flags(indicator variables?). That is, there should be 4 variabl...

...true parameter vector -- it gets c(.588, .906, 1.366, 1.974, 2.003, -0.0499, 1.015) compared with c(.5, 1., 1.5, 2, 2, -0.05, 1) I think the standard errors and tests should also be quite fine. Please do post an informative "summary" of your exploration on the economist's notation about panel data (fixed effects and random effects models) on the mailing list, when you are finished learning this question. :-) We will all benefit. Hope this helps, -- Ajay Shah Consultant ajayshah at mayin.org...

...web page? If not, I will be happy if you, Ajay, could build and maintaine one. Best wishes, Arne On Sunday 15 February 2004 07:31, Ajay Shah wrote: > Anne, > > Please do make progress on packaging and releasing your R code for > demand analysis. Is there a web page titled "R for economists"! :-) If > there isn't, I'll be happy to build and maintain one, and put a link > to your code there. -- Arne Henningsen Department of Agricultural Economics University of Kiel Olshausenstr. 40 D-24098 Kiel (Germany) Tel: +49-431-880 4445 Fax: +49-431-880 1397 ahenningsen at a...

For what it's worth my forthcoming book, "An Introduction to Modern Bayesian Econometrics", Blackwells, May 2004, makes extensive use of R. Tony Lancaster [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

...rse on numerical methods in economics. They are trying to decide which software to use for that, and I would like to advocate R. The other alternative is Matlab. I have found comparisons in terms of computational time for matrix algebra, but I don't think that is relevant: the bottleneck for economists is usually the programmer's time: if it takes a couple of hours to write something that is run only a few times, one should not care whether it runs in 2 or 2.1 minutes... I am an economist, and I have used Octave, but only until I found R. So I am not in a position to evaluate Matlab vs R....

Hi to everybody, I''m writing an article about Ruby on Rails and I need to gather some information about the project and the community of core developers. In particular I''d like to know something about the organization of the project (how are decisions taken, who decides what goes into the project, conflict resolution, contributions acceptance...) and something more technical

Dear Friends, I read in a September 2002 edition of the Economist Magazine that Yahoo! (www.yahoo.com) has signed an agreement with the Chinese government to censor searches on their web site for consumers in China. I am very disappointed in Yahoo! and hope you are too. To let my distaste be known, I am writing Yahoo! and closing my email accounts and un-subscr...

...or: m odify/delete: sambaPrimaryGroupSID: no such value (Success) In the smb.conf file I have: add machine script = /opt/IDEALX/sbin/smbldap-useradd -w '%m' When I run ./smbldap-useradd -w 'test' by hand it creates an entry without objectClass: sambaSamAccount: # test$, People, economists-inc.com dn: uid=test$,ou=People,dc=economists-inc,dc=com objectClass: top objectClass: inetOrgPerson objectClass: posixAccount cn: test$ sn: test$ uid: test$ uidNumber: 1017 gidNumber: 515 homeDirectory: /dev/null loginShell: /bin/false description: Computer gecos: Computer I don't know why s...

...corresponding values for z (ie 1 2 NA) Any suggestions about how to obtain the desired results efficiently (the actual dataset has millions of records and almost 50 columns, and I would apply the procedure on 12 of these columns)? Sincerely, Jose Luis Jose Luis Iparraguirre Senior Research Economist Economic Research Institute of Northern Ireland [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Hi everyone, i?m trying to graphically display distributions with r and i?m working with makrodata from the WVS. the command i?m using is > plot (Makrodata$v11, Makrodata$v12, xlab="Democracy Score Economist", > ylab= share religious people") i?m having an additional variable that identifies respectively labels the cases with its country name. how can i implement that variable, so it identifies the various cases in the scatterplot and looks like the spss screenshot i posted below? <h...

dear all, I get internet via a proxy server when I try to downlaod package it always fail. Even when i add and environnment variable for the http proxy server. I use windows XP SP2 Sincerly Justin BEM El?ve Ing?nieur Statisticien Economiste BP 294 Yaound?. T?l (00237)9597295.

Hi, I am currently looking for a program or programmng language easy to learn, easier to operate on.I heva heard about "R", However I understand that "R" is designed especially for statisticians. As an economist, working on applied econometrics, I am not sure if it can meet my needs. Will I be able to reach precise time series or panal data regression results with "R" ? Can "R" regress nonlinear models such as TAR, STAR and Markov Switcing models? Can I use it to do cointegration, unit...

Dear Sirs, I am an economist, and I have learned about R from an statician. I would like to get some instructions on which packages of R should I install. I am intending to use R for graphical analysis, correlaction, and also estimation - this latter the least, since I have an econometric package which performes it very we...

I am an economist who decided it's high time that I learned some Bayesian statistics. I am following An Introduction to Modern Bayesian Econometrics by T. Lancaster. The book recommends using BUGS, but I wonder if there are any alternatives which are free software and fully integrated to R (which I have been u...

Does anyone know how to read SPSS .por (ie Portable) files? The foreign package only deals with SPSS .sav files and not with those with a "por" extension. Thanks, José Mr José Luis Iparraguirre D'Elia Senior Research Economist Economic Research Institute of Northern Ireland Floral Buildings 2 - 14 East Bridge Street Belfast BT1 3NQ Northern Ireland United Kingdom Tel: 028 9072 7350 Fax: 028 9031 9003 www.erini.ac.uk <http://www.erini.ac.uk/> [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

...y RH7.0 / Samba 2.2.4 machine when accessing Excel files on a Samba share. I didn't find any solution on the Net or on this list about this. * Is there a solution without disabling oplock ? * Is it a RedHat or a Samba problem ? Thanks in advance for your help. --- Sylvain BARTHELEMY, Senior Economist Thierry Apoteker Consultant http://www.tac-financial.com | http://barth.netliberte.org -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba

...n, but need the lambda estimates to feed into gld. I have a program in Maple, which I may convert to C code for use in R, but before moving down that road I wanted to make sure there wasn't a package out there somewhere. ========================================= Michaell Taylor, PhD Senior Economist, Reis, New York, USA -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-...

...o Word (in Mac OS X), the resulting picture is very jaggy. I'm aware of the various options such as dev2bitmap, but I'd really like to be able to do a quick copy and paste without switching among various applications or creating extraneous files. Thanks. -- Eric Fruits, Ph.D. Senior Economist & Project Manager ECONorthwest - Portland

...ival5 package I use: survreg(Surv(y,y<c,type="right")~x) for a censored regression. Could anybody who's had experience of this, confirm whether I'm in the ballpark? Grateful thanks Andrew Barnes ======================================= Dr Andrew Barnes Agricultural Management Economist Modelling and Strategy Group Land Economy Research Department Research Division SAC West Mains Road Edinburgh EH9 3JG Tel: 0131 535 4042 E.Mail: A.Barnes at ed.sac.ac.uk Fax: 0131 667 2601 Mobile: 07811 935 022 Website: http://www.sac.ac.uk/management/external/default.htm