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Dear R-Help, I'm hoping to find a Multinomial Nested Logit package in R. It would be great to find something analogous to "PROC MDC" in SAS: > The MDC (Multinomial Discrete Choice) procedure analyzes models > where the > choice set consists of multiple alternatives. This procedure > supports conditional logit, > mixed logit, heteroscedastic extreme value,

Hi all, Please recommend good books for the following three categories. (I am aim at finance, macroeconomics, trading and business applications). (1) statistical (financial) data analysis; (2) time series; (3) econometrics. More specifically, I am looking for the following two types of books: (1) Books that provide big pictures and intuitions and books that connect dots... For example, there

When I try to install hte Econometrics view I get the following error: CRAN task view Econometrics not available in: install.views("Econometrics") I have already install the ctv package and loaded it before trying to install the above... Any ideas as to what's going on?

Bonjour I have this data frame and I am newbie in R. I want to ask if it is possible to draw 10 lines in a plot such that: a line for every colomn, the x - axis is the second column and the y-axis is the third one. Thank you for any input 1 0 1094442 1 0.2 1163576.2 1 0.4 1238539.6 1 0.6 1303510.4 1 0.8 1376573.2 1 1 1454175 2 0 1076068 2 0.2 1139246 2 0.4 1212344 2

R-developers: How do we go about adding keywords to the KEYWORDS and KEYWORDS.db files? I would like to add "econometrics & Econometrics" to the Statistics section of the file... Is this something I would have to do through CVS? Statistics datagen & Functions for generating data sets distribution & Probability Distributions and Random Numbers univar & simple

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

> I make a study in health econometrics and have a categorical > dependent variable (take value 1-5). I would like to fit an ordered > probit or ordered logit but i didn't find a command or package who > make that. Does anyone know if it's exists ? R is very fancy. You won't get mundane things like ordered probit off the shelf. (I will be very happy if someone will show

Hi, I have good understanding on Econometrics and statistical techniques. However, I am new to R. What would be the best way to learn R as I would be one of the few in my team started exploring R in your team. I have got a few downloads on R introduction, but I am not a FAN of online reading. Can some one guide me with some books on R and statistical models using R. Sincere thanks.... And

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

Does anyone know of a package that includes the Modified Sims test [Gewerke, 1983, Sims, 1972]? This test is used in econometrics and is a kind of alternative to the Granger test [Granger, 1969], which is in the package lmtest. Thanks in advance, chris Refernces: Gewerke, J., R. Meese, and W. Dent (1983), "Comparing Alternative Tests of Causality in Temporal Systems: Analytic Results and

Dear list, I would like to run an ANCOVA using car::Anova with repeated measures factors, but I can't figure out how to do it. My (between-subjects) covariate always interacts with my within-subject factors. As far as I understand ANCOVA, covariates usually do not interact with the effects of interest but are simply additive (or am I wrong here?). More specifically, I can add a covariate as

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

Dear developeRs, in the last month I mentioned in several discussions on R-help that Kurt and I were working on tools for "CRAN Task Views" which should help to structure the fast-growing list of packages on CRAN. Now the first version of a package called ctv (for CRAN Task Views) is available from CRAN and also two frist drafts for such views can be seen at

Dear All, we (Ott Toomet and I) would like to add functions for maximum likelihood (ML) estimations of generalized tobit models of type 2 and type 5 (*see below) in my R package for microeconomic analysis "micEcon". So far we have called these functions "tobit2( )" and "tobit5( )". Are these classifications well known? How are these functions called in other

Hello, I’m a french student in Master level “Statistics and Econometrics” . Now I’m in training for a marketing firm. I don’t find the information about the capacity of R . Can you tell me how much lignes and colones can R manipulates? Can I work with a data of 2 milions lignes? When I asked M.Maechler , he advices me to ask you about this. Thank you very much. > Date: Sun, 8

Dear R Users, Could you please help me on the following issue? I have a real large yearly data set. For each year I have 365 flow values. Some of the flow values are not known and that’s why you will see NA written in those slots. I wanted to know, is there a way that I can estimate those values? I tried approx command but it seems least helpful for the kind of issue I am up against.

Since I had too much junk cluttering my computer, I recently re-set it back to factory settings, in the process eliminating R. I now have to reload R and packages, and would like to do that via the install.views command. I have successfully downloaded the package "ctv" but R does not recognize install.views. What am I doing wrong? I am using R 2.4.0. Pierre D'Ange. "To

Hello > orderulcount Group.1 Group.2 Group.3 x V5 7 C L 0.0 30 C / L 19 C L 0.2 27 C / L 31 C L 0.4 15 C / L 43 C L 0.6 7 C / L 54 C L 0.8 2 C / L 10 C S 0.0 27 C / S 22 C S 0.2 10 C / S 34 C S 0.4 6 C / S 46 C S 0.6 1 C / S 1 D

Folks, The contour() function wants x and y to be in increasing order. I have a situation where I have a grid in x and y, and associated z values, which looks like this: x y z [1,] 0.00 20 1.000 [2,] 0.00 30 1.000 [3,] 0.00 40 1.000 [4,] 0.00 50 1.000 [5,] 0.00 60 1.000 [6,] 0.00 70 1.000 [7,] 0.00 80 0.000 [8,] 0.00 90

Dear arun and all R users, I will first of all try to simply define my issue.. I have data in the following format Year Discharge dd/mm/yyyy x .. … … … There are some NA values in the discharge which I would like to predict by using “predict command”. I cant figure out the way to write the coding for that. Could you please help me on that??? I have also ,written