Intro | MaddisonLeaders | Acknowledgements | Bibliography

Purpose of this document | Set working directory | Are there new data? | Update | Unemployment? | fedReceipts, fedOutlays | Skip historical data on fedRecepts and fedOutlays | new data on fedRecepts and fedOutlays | Plot US federal outlays | Done: Save

Abstract | Basic setup | 1. The simplest Kalman Filter: an Exponentially Weighted Moving Average (EWMA) | 1a. KFAS package for Kalman Filtering and Smoothing | 1b. Estimate the Bayesian EWMA | 2. Estimate mean and slope | References

Intro | Get the data | Find the data file | Read the data file | Countries and country codes? | MaddisonData | MaddisonSources | Bibliography

Abstract | Introduction | World leader in GDPpc by year | Plot | Maddison sources | Bibliography

Introduction | Times of major nuclear crises | Likelihood of times between major nuclear crises | Monte Carlo the time between major nuclear crises | Probability that a major nuclear war might lead to the extinction of civilization | Monte Carlo time to extinction of civilization

Write existing nuclearWeaponStates data.frame | Edit and read | Compute firstTestYr and yearsSinceLastFirstTest | number of nuclearWeapons | plot | save

Occupational summary from IPUMS | Reading and summarizing IPUMS | Appendix: Experiment with other variables

Abstract | Introduction | PackageSum2, which provides an enhanced summary of the packages with matches, | the findFn table itself, and | (the call used to produce it. | Finding a variable in a data set | Multiple functions may be documented on a single | Some help pages document other things such as data sets. | Finding packages with spline capabilities | Combining search results | Discussion | Acknowledgments