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Gretl - calculate the estimated variance of the residuals
I want to learn the statistics package gretl.
My first attempt to do so is to calculate a linear regression model of a set of data:
$$y_i = \alpha + \beta x_i + u_i$$
First I want to create a ...
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Equations solving and software help for making math patterns
I would like to convert the collected data into mathematical equations by introducing for each requirement by a parameter. In this way, I will get some equations in unknowns. We know a method of ...
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Does Julia have any hope of sticking in the statistical community?
I recently read a post from R-Bloggers, that linked to this blog post from John Myles White about a new language called Julia. Julia takes advantage of a just-in-time compiler that gives it wicked ...
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Testing statistical software
What techniques/approaches are useful in testing statistical software? I'm particularly interested in programs that do parametric estimation using maximum likelihood.
Comparing results to those from ...
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Excel as a statistics workbench
It seems that lots of people (including me) like to do exploratory data analysis in Excel. Some limitations, such as the number of rows allowed in a spreadsheet, are a pain but in most cases don't ...
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Do some of you use Google Docs spreadsheet to conduct and share your statistical work with others?
I know most of you probably feel that Google Docs is still a primitive tool. It is no Matlab or R and not even Excel. Yet, I am baffled at the power of this web based software that just uses the ...
