Publications by Arvind Sharma
Math Review
1 Theory Either look at the math camp notes, or on some simplified online blogs. Inverse of a matrix can only be calculated/is defined only for a square matrix. Furthermore, not all squares matrices have an inverse - it requires linear independence of all columns and rows i.e. the vector or data is not redundant in the matrix. A simpler way to see...
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IPUMS_graph
# NOTE: To load data, you must download both the extract's data and the DDI # and also set the working directory to the folder with these files (or change the path below). if (!require("ipumsr")) stop("Reading IPUMS data into R requires the ipumsr package. It can be installed using the following command: install.packages('ipumsr')") ## Loading req...
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Week7_CPS_discussion
PROMPT The Current Population Survey (CPS) is a monthly survey of households conducted by the Bureau of Census for the Bureau of Labor Statistics. It provides a comprehensive body of data on the labor force, employment, unemployment, persons not in the labor force, hours of work, earnings, and other demographic and labor force characteristics. Expl...
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Final_sol
Welcome to the Final! You must show your work and justify all of your responses. I cannot evaluate partial credit without evidence of understanding. This final is open book, open note, open Internet, and open computer. You may not communicate via any means with any intelligent being on this planet or another, and you may not communicate with lifefo...
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Final
Welcome to the Final! You must show your work and justify all of your responses. I cannot evaluate partial credit without evidence of understanding. This final is open book, open note, open Internet, and open computer. You may not communicate via any means with any intelligent being on this planet or another, and you may not communicate with lifefo...
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HW6
For Review, watch LINEAR REGRESSION IN R The attached .csv file has data pertaining to hospital expenditures (dependent variable). The column RVUs is a representation of standard outpatient workload. Using R, conduct correlation analysis (between the two variables) and interpret. Then fit a linear model with Expenditure as the dependent variable (...
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HW5
Homework 5, Data Analysis Resources : W5 folder in our Dropbox folder now contains some supplementary lecture readings re-emphasizing the core concepts of CLT, standard error, hypothesis testing, confidence interval and p-values. Please skim through them (~15 minutes) before attempting the assignment to refresh your memories. Please find the Open ...
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CLT_discussion_solution
Central Limit Theorem I. Definition and Proof In class, we saw that The Central Limit Theorem (CLT) is one of the most important theorems in statistics and data science. The CLT states that the sample mean (\(\bar{x}\)) of a probability distribution sample is a random variable with a mean value given by population mean \(\mu\) and standard deviati...
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HW5_template
Homework 5, Data Analysis Resources : W5 folder in our Dropbox folder now contains some supplementary lecture readings re-emphasizing the core concepts of CLT, standard error, hypothesis testing, confidence interval and p-values. Please skim through them (~15 minutes) before attempting the assignment to refresh your memories. Please find the Open ...
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Discussion4
1 Read up on how to use BEA data API The data API provides programmatic access to BEA published economic statistics using industry-standard methods and procedures. BEA’s data API includes methods for retrieving a subset of our statistical data and the meta-data that describes it. Go to Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) Data Application Programmin...
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