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Job Description: The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations based in Rome is seeking a talented statistician to join the Statistics division. We value people with technical skills, and in particular individuals who are able to translate numbers to actions and to make an impact on the world. In this role, you will be: -?? Developing R methods in collaboration with FAO

Hi Our organisation, Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has launched a small pilot project to encourage the use of R within FAO. In this regard, we are looking for a motivated person with strong skills in R, able to teach R to beginners, and to develop specific packages on request. More specifically, the candidate will be given the challenge to build staff's

Job Description. We are seeking 2 statisticians and R developers to join the Methodological innovation team of FAO Statistics Division in Rome, Italy. Statistics is a core function of FAO and represents a highly visible area of the Organization's work. FAO is recognized as having a fundamental global role in developing methods and standards for food and agriculture statistics and as hosting

Greetings, In my opinion the documentation or behaviour of qr.solve, qr.coef, qr.resid, and qr.fitted is not easily comprehensible and unfortunate. We all know that a linear system Ax=b can have 0, one or infinitely many solutions. To treat all these cases uniformly we can rephrase the problem as x = argmin_u||Au-b||,

Hi Amy, one key question: can this position work remotely? Thank you, Mark LoPresti From: "Heyman, Amy (ESS)" <Amy.Heyman at fao.org> To: "r-sig-jobs at r-project.org" <r-sig-jobs at r-project.org> Sent: Tuesday, January 6, 2015 10:49 AM Subject: [R-jobs] FAO Statistical Yearbook consultant FAO Statistical Yearbook consultant The Food and

Hi, sorry, I'm an idiot.. and I know I'm missing something stupid.. I thought if we solve an underdetermine system with QR, my soln is: min ||x|| (L2 sense) such that Ax = b then say i have: > w <- matrix(c(1, 5), ncol=2) > sw = 2 > qrW = qr(t(w) %*% w) > qr.coef(qrW, t(w) %*% sw) [,1] [1,] 2 [2,] NA but we also have soln (0, 2/5) which obviously has a

Dear Amy, Same question here: do you accept remote applicants? Best Regards, Samuel On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 8:43 AM, M?rti?? Liberts <martins.liberts at gmail.com> wrote: > Dear Amy, > > I have the same question as Mark. Is it possible to work from abroad - > remotely? > > > Best regards, > Martins > > > On 6 January 2015 at 19:32, Mark LoPresti

Dear Amy, I have the same question as Mark. Is it possible to work from abroad - remotely? Best regards, Martins On 6 January 2015 at 19:32, Mark LoPresti <marklopresti at yahoo.com> wrote: > Hi Amy, > > one key question: can this position work remotely? > Thank you, > Mark LoPresti > From: "Heyman, Amy (ESS)" <Amy.Heyman at fao.org> > To:

FAO Statistical Yearbook consultant The Food and Agriculture Organization (www.fao.org) is a United Nations agency that leads international efforts to reduce hunger in the world. This is achieved through three main goals: the eradication of hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition; the elimination of poverty and the driving forward of economic and social progress for all; and, the sustainable

Dear R users, I have to find optimal solution of an underdetermined linear system, but only with positive variables. I tried the function from this post https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2007-October/143408.html , but it's solution includes also negative values. Thanks in advance. Best Regards. ------------------------------------- Майски празници на остров Лефкада, Гърция от 158

Hi, I have a queue with one agent added using AddQueueMember (FAO|Local/1001 at from-sip|0||Agent/602). My extensions.conf is [general] static=yes writeprotect=yes autofallthrough=no clearglobalvars=no priorityjumping=no [from-sip] exten => 100001000,1,Dial(SIP/100001000,,t) exten => 1001,1,Dial(SIP/1001,,t) exten => 1002,1,Dial(SIP/1002,,t) exten => 1003,1,Dial(SIP/1003,,t) exten

Hi, I am using asterisk-1.4.15 I have a queue with one agent added using AddQueueMember (FAO|Local/1001 at from-sip|0||Agent/602). Once this command executes queue show FAO shows: FAO has 0 calls (max unlimited) in 'roundrobin' strategy (0s holdtime), W:0, C:0, A:0, SL:0.0% within 60s Members: Agent/602 (dynamic) (Not in use) has taken no calls yet There is no

Position: Bayesian Modeling Statistician at the level of Research Scientist, Senior Scientist or Principal Scientist, depending on experience. MetrumRG is selectively seeking enthusiastic and energetic individuals to join a team of scientists in a unique working environment. As a member of the MetrumRG team, you will participate in the research, development, and application of

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I have installed samba 3.0.23d on FreeBSD 6.1. It is running with "security = ads". Plan is to replace current server running Samba 3.0.14a on FreeBSD 5.3 in the Windows2003 domain. I have successfully joined the domain and can list users and groups (I did notice that when I review Computer Properties under Operating Systems tab it does not list Samba and the corresponding version like

The Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations is looking for an R expert to assist the translation of current methodology from other statistical software into R. The position will involve sitting down with statisticians from various team to understand the current methodology and support the staff to develop the methodology in R. This is a full-time position based in Rome

Hi *, is there a way to obtain some kind of p-value for a model fitted with RMA using the lmodel2 package? I know that p-values are discussed and criticized a lot and as you can image from my question I'm not very much of a statistican (only writing my bachelor thesis). As fare as I understood the confidence interval statistic correctly, a coefficient is regarded as statistically significant

Hello, I was asked to provide info about my attempt to run Rome TW on my Linux system. Not sure what info exactly is sought, so please ask for additional information. The system I tried to use is a Dell Latitude D830 with 3 GB ram and the latest Bios version A15 I've installed Ubuntu 10.10 32bit. I did install Compiz Fusion from standard Ubuntu repo's. Additionaly, I installed Wine 1.2

dear people, first of all I am a newbie when it comes to ubuntu, wine and everything, so this is a disclaimer in the very probable case that I ask a stupid question. The issue is this: I installed Rome Total war +barbarian invasion, which goes smoothly, when I start however the program asks for directx 9. what to do? I use wine 1.3.26 and Ubuntu 10.10 I tried downloading patches, but failed to

Please be gentle I'm a Wine newbie, and a relative newcomer to Linux/Ubuntu. Using Wine version 1.0.1. Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid. I have installed 'Rome Total War' through Wine using the multi-CD install. All seems to have completed normally. However on starting the application, when the main splash-screen is about to clear to go to the game options I get an error:- filename