Re: [R] [Repost][Off Topic] Pointers needed for breakthrough in statistics

You might find the articles of Stephen Stigler interesting: http://www.stat.uchicago.edu/faculty/stigler/pubs.html T On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 4:00 PM, Juliet Hannah wrote: > You may find the following two books useful: > > Lehmann, Reminiscences of a Statistician (Springer). > > David Salsburg, Th

Re: [R] Question of "Quantile Regression for Longitudinal Data"

This is a nontrivial problem. This comes up often on the Statalist (-qreg- is for cross-section quantile regression): " You want to fit a plane through the origin using the L-1 norm. This is not as easy as with L-2 norm (LS), as it is more than a matter of dropping a constant predictor yet otherwi

Re: [R] joint estimation of two poisson equations

You should probably try the -bivpois- package: http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/bivpois/index.html A very good discussion of multivariate Poissons, negative binomials etc. can be found in Chapter 7 of Rainer Winkelmann's book "Econometric Analysis of Count Data" (Springer 2008). Most of the