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Hi all, I'm new with R (and S), and relatively new to statistics (I'm a computer scientist), so I ask sorry in advance if my question is silly. My problem is this: I have a (sample of a) discrete time stochastic process {X_t} and I want to estimate Pr{ X_t | X_{t-l_1}, X_{t-l_2}, ..., X_{t-l_k} } where l_1, l_2, ..., l_k are some fixed time lags. It will be enough for me to compute #{ X_t=a_t, X_{t-l_1}=a_{t-l_1}, X_{t-l_2}=a_{t-l_2}, ..., X_{t-l_k}=a_{t-l_k} } ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #{ X_{t-l_1}=...

I saw a Help e-mail related to MLE. Does R have a probability weighted method (PWM) estimator function? I can't seem to find anything on PWM, unless my eyes are playing trick on me. [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Hello! In the example below the Reduce() function by default assigns "a" to be the last accumulated value and "b" to be the current value in "x". I could not find this documented anywhere as the default settings for the Reduce() function. Does any sort of documentation for this behavior exist? x <- c(0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,5,0,0,0,7,0,0,0,8,5,10)

Vince Carey found this (thank you!). Since the fix to the problem is not entirely obvious, I post this to R-devel as RFC: help(dist) says: >> Missing values are allowed, and are excluded from all computations >> involving the rows within which they occur. If some columns are >> excluded in calculating a Euclidean, Manhattan or Canberra >> distance, the sum is

Dear R listers, When using smooth.spline to interpolate data, results are generally good. However, some cases produce totally unreasonable results. The data are values of pressure, temperature, and salinity from a probe that is lowered into the ocean, and the objective is to interpolate temperature and salinity to specified pressures. While smooth.spline provides excellent values at the