similar to: Re: R for economists

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 using for more than two years for numerical computations.) I would like to learn

Dear Group, I am an economics student starting 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

We would like to announce the release of our software, which is now available through CRAN. MNP: R Package for Fitting the Multinomial Probit Models Abstract: MNP is a publicly available R package that fits the Bayesian multinomial probit models via Markov chain Monte Carlo. Along with the standard multinomial probit model, it can also fit models with different choice sets for each observation,

We would like to announce the release of our software, which is now available through CRAN. MNP: R Package for Fitting the Multinomial Probit Models Abstract: MNP is a publicly available R package that fits the Bayesian multinomial probit models via Markov chain Monte Carlo. Along with the standard multinomial probit model, it can also fit models with different choice sets for each observation,

Hi, I did not find any web page about using R in economics and econometrics so far. However, this does not mean that there is none (searching with google for "R" and "economics" gives many pages about economics and a name like Firstname R. Lastname on it ;-)). Does anybody in the list does know such a web page? If not, I will be happy if you, Ajay, could build and

The package AER accompanying the forthcoming book "Applied Econometrics with R" by Christian Kleiber and me in the Springer useR! series has (finally!) been released to CRAN: http://CRAN.R-project.org/package=AER It contains some new R functionality o tobit regression convenience interface (to "survival") o instrumental variables regression (two-stage least squares)

The package AER accompanying the forthcoming book "Applied Econometrics with R" by Christian Kleiber and me in the Springer useR! series has (finally!) been released to CRAN: http://CRAN.R-project.org/package=AER It contains some new R functionality o tobit regression convenience interface (to "survival") o instrumental variables regression (two-stage least squares)

Greetings: I'm going to encourage some students to try Bayesian ideas for hierarchical models. I want to run the WinBUGS and R examples in Tony Lancaster's An Introduction to Modern Bayesian Econometrics. That features MS Windows and "bugs" from R2WinBUGS. Today, I want to ask how people are doing this in Linux? I have found a plethora of possibilities, some of which are not

We are pleased to announce the release of version 0.0 of bayesm on CRAN. bayesm covers many important models used in marketing and micro-econometrics applications. The package includes: Bayes Regression (univariate or multivariate dep var) Multinomial Logit Multinomial and Multivariate Probit Multivariate Mixtures of Normals Hierarchical Linear Models with a normal prior and covariates

We are pleased to announce the release of version 0.0 of bayesm on CRAN. bayesm covers many important models used in marketing and micro-econometrics applications. The package includes: Bayes Regression (univariate or multivariate dep var) Multinomial Logit Multinomial and Multivariate Probit Multivariate Mixtures of Normals Hierarchical Linear Models with a normal prior and covariates

Hello R users! I've been experimenting with lmer to estimate a mixed model with a dichotomous dependent variable. The goal is to fit a hierarchical model in which we compare the effect of individual and city-level variables. I've run up against a conceptual problem that I expect one of you can clear up for me. The question is about random effects in the context of a model fit with a

Dear all, The new version of AdMit (version 1.01-01) is now available from CRAN. SUMMARY The package provides functions to perform the fitting of an adaptive mixture of Student-t distributions to a target density through its kernel function. The mixture approximation can then be used as the importance density in importance sampling or as the candidate density in the Metropolis-Hastings

Dear all, The new version of AdMit (version 1.01-01) is now available from CRAN. SUMMARY The package provides functions to perform the fitting of an adaptive mixture of Student-t distributions to a target density through its kernel function. The mixture approximation can then be used as the importance density in importance sampling or as the candidate density in the Metropolis-Hastings

I am getting several errors about Windows only packages when I use task views. Is this suppose to be a Windows-centric utility? Also, I am sure there must be a simple way to tell which packages are in a view, but I haven't found it. If there isn't, it would be nice to have. Paul Gilbert _______ install.views(c( "Multivariate", "Econometrics", "Finance",

Chapman & Hall/CRC: The R Series We are delighted to announce that our new series of books on R is up and running, with two books already published and another nine forthcoming (including three set to publish in 2012). We are keen to receive proposals for books covering all aspects of the development and application of R software. If you have an idea for a book, please contact one of the

Cran task views seems to be a "once-per-session" process -- the first attempt to access views in a (RGui for Windows) session works, but subsequent attempts fail. There is a noticeably long pause before the failing call returns. Example session with two calls to "available.views" follows, but similar effects have been observed with two calls to "install.views" and

Hi The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), based in Rome, is in urgent need of an econometrican/statistican. The candidate will be required to provide in the absence of primary information model-based estimates of elements of utilization that enter our Food Balance Sheets (see http://faostat3.fao.org/home/index.html#HOME). We are therefore looking for two candidates

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The submission deadline for `useR! 2006', the second R user conference to be held in Vienna June 15-17 2006, is only four weeks ahead. Now is the perfect time to submit abstracts for user-contributed sessions! The sessions will be a platform to bring together R users, contributers, package maintainers and developers in the S spirit that `users are developers'. People from different fields

The submission deadline for `useR! 2006', the second R user conference to be held in Vienna June 15-17 2006, is only four weeks ahead. Now is the perfect time to submit abstracts for user-contributed sessions! The sessions will be a platform to bring together R users, contributers, package maintainers and developers in the S spirit that `users are developers'. People from different fields