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Hello all, This is a request for help from somebody who has the Ox interfaces working in R. I am trying to get the Ox interfaces working for Arfima and Garch modelling. However, I am having several problems: 1. The link to download G at rch_v40 does not work. Does anybody have a copy to email to me please? 2. Various guides offer different instructions for installing Ox in the correct place

Hi, I'm slowly working through Tsay's "Analysis of Financial Time Series" 3rd ed. ?I'm trying to replicate Table 2.1 on p.47, which gives PACF, AIC, and BIC for the monthly simple returns of the CRSP value-weighted index. The data: http://faculty.chicagobooth.edu/ruey.tsay/teaching/fts3/m-ibm3dx2608.txt > da <-

Dear fellow R Users: I am doing a Cholesky decomposition on a correlation matrix and get error message the matrix is not semi-definite. Does anyone know: 1- a work around to this issue? 2- Is there any approach to try and figure out what vector might be co-linear with another in thr Matrix? 3- any way to perturb the data to work around this? Thanks for any suggestions.

I am trying to learn how to format Ascii data files for scan or read into R. Precisely for a quickie project, I found some code (at end of this email) to do exactly what I need: To cluster and graph a dendrogram from package (stats). I am stuck on how to format a text file to run the script. I looked at the dataset USArrests (which would be replaced by my data and labels) using UltraEdit. That

Hi, I'm trying to work with TsayData in fSeries package. How can i fetch any time series data of this package. Please advice. Thanks, Sumanta Basak. Send instant messages to your online friends http://in.messenger.yahoo.com

Hi all, I am looking for study resources for (financial) time series? Hopefully I could find video lectures then it will reduce the learning curve. Thanks a lot! [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Can anyone advise me on some pratical papers or books On Gaussian Copulas? Anything in the genre of Copulas Dummies Would be a help. As simpe, and approachable with minimal pedantic style. Thanks, Neil -------------------------------------------------------- This information is being sent at the recipient's reques...{{dropped:16}}

I would like to buy a basic statistics book (experimental design, sampling, ANOVA, regression, etc.) with examples in R. Or download it in PDF or html format. I went to the CRAN contributed documentation, but there were only R textbooks, that is, textbooks where R is the focus, not the statistics. And I would like to find the opposite. Other text I am trying to find is multivariate data

I'm looking for a book for someone completely ignorant of statistics who wishes to learn both statistics and R. I've found three possibilities, one by Verzani ("Using R for Introductory Statistics"), one by Crawley ("Statistics: An Introduction using R"), and one by Dalgaard ("Introductory Statistics with R"). Do these books have different emphases,

Hi! I know that there is function in fBasics package for univariate Jarque-Bera test and a funtion for univariate Ljung-Box test in stats package. But I am wondering if there is a function somewhere to do the tests for multivariate time series? Thanks, John [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Can anyone please tell whether there is any R function to act as "VEC" and "VECH" operator on Matrix? Yes of course, I can write a user-defined-function for that or else, I can put dim(mat) <- NULL. However I am looking for some R function. Your help will be highly appreciated. Regards, -- View this message in context:

Hi folks, Both plotrix and prettyR have been updated. plotrix now has the "Matlab" style dotplot that was requested not long ago on the list, provided by that intrepid duo, Barry Rowlingson and Rolf Turner. Mike Cheetham has contributed an implementation of the Piper diagram, also in response to a request. prettyR has finally learned how to display SPSS value labels in the xtab and

I have done a cluster analysis doing: 1-clusNorth <-hclust(dist(Artorious)^2, method="ward") 2-clusNorth$labels <-Artorious$Name ## to show the case names and not numbers 3-dend1 <- as.dendrogram(clusNorth) 4-plot(dend1) My Dendrogram is now showing the names of my cases in the dataframe on the x axis 1 OMNICELL INC COM 2 GETTY IMAGES INC

I need to write a C# program to create and display Cusum chart from any of the packages, spc, qcc or strucchange. Issues: 1-The data resides in a MS SQL Database. The C# program will handle obtaining the data for the requisite types of samples. Assistance needed on: 1-How can I call the cusum capabilities of any of the above packages and pass the data to the cusum function and plot? 2-How

Hi there, I'm in desperate need to figure out how to solve this issue. I need to estimate a recursive model for a time series data of asset returns. The dependent variable is the asset return and then I have a set of k variables, a lagged value of the dependent variable (plus an intercept) as regressors. My sample period (monthly observations) starts on Jan 1972. What I need to do is the

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

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I know, this is a forum about R. But I am so desperate of this problem (BTW, anyone knows any good Statistics/Math forum to post question like this?): A and B are both n x n positive definite matrix. Denote A > B, if A - B is positive definite. I know this is true: if A > B, then A^{-1} < B^{-1}. But how to prove this? I tried to diagonalize A and B, but since they can have different

Hello, I am a new user of R. I am trying to use the packages fBasics and fExtremes when i am running the examples I get few error. Could someone tell me what is happenig? Thank you beforehand. from Fbasics packages: xmpfBasics() Error in file(file, "r") : unable to open connection In addition: Warning message: cannot open file '/usr/lib/R/library/fBasics/demoIndex'

Hello, I'm looking for a textbook that can explain some of the math behind the intro-to-intermediate stuff like ANOVA, multiple regression, non- parametric tests, etc. A little background: I took an intro stats course last year and would like to further my education. Being as that was the highest (and only) stats class the local community college offers, it looks like I'm on