Endnote and Openoffice

The new Endnote (X3) supports Openoffice. This is a positive development.

Graph with two axes

In R: http://robjhyndman.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=233:r-graph-with-two-y-axes&catid=32:mbr&Itemid=103

In Stata: http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/library/GraphExamples/code/twobar.htm

Also, R package "plotrix" has a function "twoord.plot" designed specifically for this.

New releases

While waiting for R 2.9.1, I saw the release notes for Stata 11.

Google scholar search

This google scholar search of "shared latent variable random effects" yields some interesting results.

SabreR

SabreR consists three components: a Sabre binary, a R wrapper that communicate with the binary file (input and output), and a short R function to print the output.

The developer of SabreR wrote the wrapper in the somewhat unconventional way, which makes table making and simulation difficult.

Statistical simulation

Chapter 7 of Data Analysis Using Regression and Multilevel/Hierarchical Models by Gelman and Hill offers good description of why use statistical simulation in quantitative research. Their R package ARM provides a good place to get started to program one's own simulation module. Of course, Zelig has already had a impressive collection of models pre-programmed; but custom programming is always more fun.

Table making in R

Both MEMISC and APSRTABLE can automatically generate publication-quality tables from estimated models in R.

In addition, MEMISC also provides infrastructure for survey data analysis.

Thank Apple for the Linux 'desktop'

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10259059-16.html

Apophenia

Looks like the author of Apophenia library finally fixed the compilation problem under Ubuntu 9.04.

Interesting article

http://www.mindmeters.com/arshow.asp?id=2292

CVS repository for Emacs

The CVS repository for Emacs seems to be broken during the past couple of days. Don't know what is going on there.

ADMB-ide

An Emacs-based IDE for ADMB: http://admb-project.org/community/editing-tools/admb-ide