Re: An introduction to the lasso in Stata
Is there a location for the dataset hsafety2?
View ArticleRe: Bayesian inference using multiple Markov chains
Thank you for sharing the bayesparallel command: Very useful and fast.
View ArticleRe: Structural vector autoregression models
Hello Glacer, please have you received an answer on how to retrieve the structural shocks
View ArticleRe: Flexible discrete choice modeling using a multinomial probit model, part 1
Have you got the answer for the multiplying of 2 to set the scale for base alternative?
View ArticleRe: Flexible discrete choice modeling using a multinomial probit model, part 1
Hello Goerg, could you please elaborate why you multiply the matrix again by 2 ? As you already normalized it by setting one of the variances difference to 1. Thanks Shah
View ArticleRe: Creating Excel tables with putexcel part 3: Writing custom reports for...
Hi Chuck,I'm using putexcel and very similar nested loop as those shown above. It's running a fair bit slower than I would have expected. I'm outputting about 15 columns and 100 rows of text and data...
View ArticleRe: An introduction to the lasso in Stata
Typically researchers use adaptive lasso as a model selection device: to select covariates. However, they re-estimate the model with the selected covariates in the second step, and this method is...
View ArticleRe: New Wooldridge edition just made available
My name is Nancy Medina. I am a PhD student at FLACSO-ECUADOR and a professor at the Central University of Ecuador.Please if you can help me. I need to estimate a probit model with panel data and...
View ArticleRe: Import COVID-19 data from Johns Hopkins University
this is great. but what I would like is more denominator data--- ie populations by state and country
View ArticleRe: Update to Import COVID-19 post
As a matter of fact, this character "ï" in the first variable name comes from the byte order mark (here it's "EF BB FF" in hexadecimal). To deal with this, add the option "encoding(utf-8)" to -import...
View ArticleRe: Update to Import COVID-19 post
Just one quick note for cleaning purposes, along the way UK has been recoded as United Kingdom in the John Hopkins Dataset. Pre-cleaning, there are two data sets for the UK data
View ArticleRe: Update to Import COVID-19 post
It's actually easier if you use their (newly changed) time series data.My ado file is here:https://github.com/StataAfi...
View ArticleRe: Update to Import COVID-19 post
This is very useful! Thank you! I found an error in one line for Brazil. I know you are only using the data repository, but I think it underscores that users need to check the data carefully for...
View ArticleRe: Update to Import COVID-19 post
I tried to download and install your ado, but I am not getting the merged data set. It only saves separate files by date and stops at that point on my computer following your instructions.
View ArticleRe: Update to Import COVID-19 post
Nice program. I noticed that the variable "lastupdate" takes different format, specifically from 02/02/20 (even seconds have been included). How this could be fixed?
View ArticleRe: COVID-19 time-series data from Johns Hopkins University
There is also a time series page on Github: https://github.com/CSSEGISa...It's probably easier to import and manipulate these data, instead of merging separate daily files ...
View ArticleRe: COVID-19 time-series data from Johns Hopkins University
Thanks. Very informative explanation. How about forecasting of COVID19?
View ArticleRe: Adding recession shading to time-series graphs
Awesome post! Here is a modification of the solution based on methods Nick Cox discusses in Speaking Stata: Shading zones on time series and other plots.clear allimport fred UNRATE USRECM,...
View ArticleRe: COVID-19 time-series data from Johns Hopkins University
This is a great post. There are a lot of useful techniques here. Other posts with examples of reading, manipulating and analyzing data would be welocme
View ArticleRe: Fitting distributions using bayesmh
Thank you very much for the information. But how can I determine how to use them? If I have a continuous DV, shall I use the exponential distribution? If it is an ordinal DV, then it is poisson...
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