meaning forecast

robjhyndman.com пишет про новый R пакет прогнозирования как бе, но пишет следующим образом:
The accuracy func­tion now works with both time series fore­casts and cross-​​sectional forecasts. то-есть, по-руски прогнозирование -- это предвидение по времени, а попе н достансге -- совсем не обязательно и вводит нас (если на демографическом образовании строицо) в мир indirect techniques

Multivariate regression analysis using categorical explanatory variables

LinkedIN начал новую нитку с этой назвой

Which package is useful to handle categorical variables in a multivariate regression analyisis and where may I find the tutorials? Every information that I find is about quantitative data.
I am currently using a lm function to find the best predictor for a quantitative response variable but I am afraid, it is not the best approach. I also do not want to use dummies.

research vs grants

Rob J Hyn­d­man :
I don’t think telling peo­ple what research areas are impor­tant is very help­ful. The best research comes about when peo­ple are curi­ous and pas­sion­ate, and take a sur­pris­ingly dif­fer­ent per­spec­tive from those who have gone before.
from here
действительно, как раз сейчас пытаюсь ответить на вопросы какбе грантодателей, 1 из х:
Существует ли в стране политика, программа и/или стратегия, направленная на решение вопросов сексуального и репродуктивного здоровья и репродуктивных прав, которая(ые) находится в процессе разработки или исполнения?
ответить надо да/нет

Tutorials from Universities Around the World

Online tutorials for R programming, Statistics and Graphic

Here is a list of FREE R tutorials hosted in official website of universities around the world. The tutorials are listed  in no particular order, actually based on when I have discovered it. They will be categorised soon. Please kindly suggest me other university-hosted online R tutorials by email to me@pairach.com.

1. University of California at Davis,
   Getting Started with the R Data Analysis Package
   by Professor Norm Matloff
2. Clarkson University,
   R Tutorial
   by Kelly Black
3. York University,
   Getting started with R
4. University of Waterloo
   R Tutorial For A WINDOWS Environment (Windows, Unix)
5. University of California at Los Angles, UCLA,
   Resources to help you learn and use R
6. University of California at Riverside.
   Programming in R
7. University of Illinois,
   A Brief Introduction to R
8. University of Texas at Austin,
   R Tutorial Videos
   by Brandon K. Vaughn
9. University of California at Berkeley,
   An Introduction to R (PDF)
   by Phil Spector
10. University of California at Santa Babara,
    R Programming Resource Centre
    by National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis
11. Chiang Mai University,
    Econometrics with R (in Thai)
    by Pairach Piboonrungroj.
12. University of Carnegie Mellon,
    A Tutorial: Some Fundamentals of R.
    by Bruce E. Trumbo
13. University of Illinois State,
    R Tutorial.
    by Dong-Yun Kim
14. University of MacMaster,
    Introduction to the R Statistical Computing Environment.
    by John Fox.
15. University of Princeton,
    Introducing R.
    by Germán Rodríguez
16. University of Amsterdam,
    How to draw graphs with R,  [Graphics]
    by A.M. (Angelos-Miltiadis) Krypotos
17. University of North Texas,
    Do it yourself – Introduction to R [Intro]
18. University of Warwick,
    R programming page [Biosciences: Molecular Organisation and Assembly in Cells]
    by Peter Cock.
19. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    R tutorial for Applied Econometrics
    by Prof. Roger Koenker
    
20. Coastal Carolina University
    R tutorials [General]
    by  William B. King
21. University of Colorado Denver
    R Tutorial [General]
    by  Stephanie Santorico and Mark Shin
22. Stanford School of Medicine (Biomedical Informatics)
    R Tutorial [VDO on Introduction + Translational Bioinformatics]
23. Harding University
    Producing Simple Graphs with R [basic graphic e.g., line, bar, hist, line]
    by Frank McCown
24. University of Kentucky, Department of Statistics
    Use Software R to do Survival Analysis and Simulation [pdf]
    by Mai Zhou