Re: [R] Foometrics in R

2006-06-19 Thread Albyn Jones
On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 02:34:17AM -0700, Jan de Leeuw wrote: One of the outcomes of useR! 2006 is that JSS is planning to publish a series of special volumes. They will be guest edited (I have guest editors already, although somewhat tentative in some cases). Each volume will have 5-10

Re: [R] MLE maximum number of parameters

2006-06-19 Thread Albyn Jones
I regularly optimize functions of over 1000 parameters for posterior mode computations using a variant of newton-raphson. I have some favorable conditions: the prior is pretty good, the posterior is smooth, and I can compute the gradient and hessian. albyn On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 06:53:00PM

[R] off-topic; iraq statistics again

2006-05-22 Thread Albyn Jones
Gabor Grothendieck wrote: I came across this one: http://www.nysun.com/article/32787 which says that the violent death rate in Iraq (which presumably includes violent deaths from the war) is lower than the violent death rate in major American cities. Does anyone have any insights from

Re: [R] Curve fitting

2006-01-12 Thread Albyn Jones
You haven't told us how you are fitting the model; are you using nls(), and if so with what initial values? The models don't make sense at x=0, due to the inclusion of the log(x) term. Ignoring that, you have 5 observations and 5 parameters in your second model. What is the reason you are

Re: [R] Console

2005-08-18 Thread Albyn Jones
Quoting Daniela Salvini [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I am at my first steps with R... and I already notice that the console has a quite limited number of lines. Can anyone tell me how to visualise all the information, which is actually present? I only see the last part of the output, which obviosly

Re: [R] How about a mascot for R?

2004-12-02 Thread Albyn Jones
On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 06:18:39PM +0100, Henrik Bengtsson wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Damian Betebenner Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2004 6:07 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [R] How about a mascot for R?

Re: [R] Calculate Closest 5 Cases?

2004-02-13 Thread Albyn Jones
but for their enslavement. The new political gospel: public office is private graft. [Mark Twain] http://www.reed.edu/~jonesAlbyn Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reed College, Portland OR 97202 (503)-771-1112 x7418

Re: [R] Effects of rounding on regression

2003-11-08 Thread Albyn Jones
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