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In a recent blog post I used something like this (for use in a call to optim()): obj_fun_expr <- expression((x^4 + 4 * x^2 * y^2 - …
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Let \(\rho_{XY}\) be the correlation between the stochastic variables \(X\) and \(Y\) and similarly for \(\rho_{XZ}\) and …
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It is important to test software. One approach is unit-testing, and for R packages this can e.g. be done using testthat. It is also …
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Update Aug 10, 2019: I wrote a new blog post about the same as below but using a simulation approach. Let \(\rho_{XY}\) be the …
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As you may know, I am maintaining the Ryacas package (with online documentation) for doing symbolic mathematics (and other stuff) in R …
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I am learning how to play piano. In that process, I needed charts with piano chords. I know it is good practise to construct the chords …
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We (Søren Højsgaard and I) are preparing a new major release of Ryacas (GitHub). It will have a new interface to yacas that is thinner, …
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