similar to: stochastic growth models

Hello, Having measured two populations' characteristics at one particular time[with great precision] with R, I would like to extend this to measuring the same populations starting at t1, and then again at t2, and try to develop a growth model (something like dpop1/dt=r*pop^(...),dpop2/dt=r*pop^(...)). I think the idea is to create a model that will predict the growth of a population(N(mu,

Dear all, I am running matrix population models using package "popbio". In a deterministic model {i.e., transition matrix is defined as A <- matrix(c(0.70, 0.70,0.35,0.50), nrow=2,byrow=TRUE}, population growth rate can be estimated from the dominant eigenvalue {command "eigen.analysis"}. However, I cannot figure out the way to compute the asymptotic stochastic population

Hi all, Could anybody point me to some overview/survey papers about using particle filters and sequential monte carlo methods to estimate stochastic volatilities? I couldn't find any such articles giving a big-picture view of the literature. How do these estimation methods compare to EMM and other Bayesian methods for estimating stochastic volatilities? Also, I am looking for some

Hi! A few weeks ago, I have uploaded a new R package "frontier" for Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) [1] to CRAN [2]. It includes the FORTRAN code of Tim Coelli's [3] software "Frontier 4.1" [4]. Hence, the R package "frontier" should have the same capabilities as "Frontier 4.1", i.e. Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Stochastic Frontier Production

Hi! A few weeks ago, I have uploaded a new R package "frontier" for Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) [1] to CRAN [2]. It includes the FORTRAN code of Tim Coelli's [3] software "Frontier 4.1" [4]. Hence, the R package "frontier" should have the same capabilities as "Frontier 4.1", i.e. Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Stochastic Frontier Production

(apologies for the cross-posting, and for this being a more general stats question rather than a specific-to-R one. I assure you I will be doing the actual analysis in R :) I am trying to determine the distribution and variance for a classic stochastic (transition) matrix problem such that: let x(t) be an initial state vector consisting of counts of classes A, B and C: x(t) =

Hello R users, I am trying to calculate the stochastic lambda for a published matrix population model using the popbio package. Unfortunately, I have been unable to match the published results. Can anyone tell me whether this is due to slightly different methods being used, or have I gone wrong somewhere in my code? Could the answer be as simple as comparing deterministic lambdas to

I need to estimate maximum tree crown radius and am looking for a package to prepare stochastic frontier models in R. I have not found any package references on Nabble R help, google, or R help. Any tips on a package for this? With regards, Aaron Trowbridge Researcher BV Research Centre Smithers B.C. -- View this message in context:

Hi all, Does anybody have the source code of stochastic volatility models in R or Matlab, for example, the Bayesian based or the simulation based SV estimations as described by Prof Eric Zivot in the following discussion? https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-finance/2005q4/000501.html -------------- I am wondering what is the current status of estimating stochastic vol models and what's

Hi. guys, I am trying to write my own Stochastic Gradient Ascent for logistic regression in R. But it seems that I am having convergence problem. Am I doing anything wrong, or just the data is off? Here is my code in R - lbw <- read.table("http://www.biostat.jhsph.edu/~ririzarr/Teaching/754/lbw.dat" , header=TRUE) attach(lbw) lbw[1:2,] low age lwt race smoke ptl ht ui ftv

Do anyone now R packages that run/test stochastic dominance with respect to a function (SDRF) and/or stochastic efficiency with respect to a function (SERF)? Peter Maclean Department of Economics UDSM [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Computational Aspects of Simulation and Inference for Stochastic Processes and the YUIMA Project This two-day workshop is aimed at presenting the latest results on simulation and inference for stochastic processes and their current and prospect implementation within the YUIMA R package. Dates: March 27 (Tue) 9:15-12:15, 14:45-17:45 March 28 (Wed) 9:15-12:15, 14:45-17:45 Location:

Hi, I am trying to find out the scale efficiency and optimal scale of banks by stochastic frontier analysis given the panel data of bank. I am free to choose any model of stochastic frontier analysis. The only approach I know to work with R is to estimate a translog production function by sfa or other related function in frontier package, and then use the Ray 1998 formula to find the scale

I have just put the postscript file for the first draft of a manuscript of a course on The Statistical Analysis of Stochastic Processes in Time, as well as the R code to do all of the examples, on my web page at www.luc.ac.be/~jlindsey/manuscripts.html The chapters are Part I Basic principles 1. What is a stochastic process? 2. Normal theory models and extensions. Part II Categorical state

I have just put the postscript file for the first draft of a manuscript of a course on The Statistical Analysis of Stochastic Processes in Time, as well as the R code to do all of the examples, on my web page at www.luc.ac.be/~jlindsey/manuscripts.html The chapters are Part I Basic principles 1. What is a stochastic process? 2. Normal theory models and extensions. Part II Categorical state

Hi, Given a positive integer N, and a real number \lambda such that 0 < \lambda < 1, I would like to generate an N by N stochastic matrix (a matrix with all the rows summing to 1), such that it has the second largest eigenvalue equal to \lambda (Note: the dominant eigenvalue of a stochastic matrix is 1). I don't care what the other eigenvalues are. The second eigenvalue is

Dear all, I want to finished my paper by latent class Stochastic Frontier Analysis , but i can not find the package, is there anyone that may help me Thanks a lot. [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Dear all, I want to program my own models about Stochastic Frontier Analysis and Linear programming (Data Envelopment Analysis). In this context, is there anyone that may help me with some simple tutorials and scripts about these issues? Thanks a lot. -- Marcus Vinicius Pereira de Souza, Prof. [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Dear colleagues, I?m a new R-help user. I?ve read the advertisements about the good manners and I hope to propose a good question. I?m using R to build an epidemiological SEIR model based on ODEs. The odesolve package is very useful to solve deterministic ODE systems but I?d like to perform a stochastic simulation based on Markov chain Montecarlo methods. I don?t know which packages could be

Dear everyone, i`m a german economics student, writing my master´s thesis about "Multivariate Volatility Models". After having read about theoretical aspects of Multivariate GARCH ans Stochastic Volatility Models, I would like to compare DCC-GARCH and DC-SV with help of an empirical application. I figuered out that one has to use MCMC-simulation-methods for that. Some days ago I