Maximum Likelihood Programming in R Marco R. Steenbergen Department of Political Science University of North Carolina‚ Chapel Hill January 2006 Contents 1 Introduction 2 Syntactic Structure 2.1 Declaring the Log-Likelihood Function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.2 Optimizing the Log-Likelihood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Output 4 Obtaining Standard Errors 5 Test Statistics and Output Control 2 2 2 4 5 5 7 1 1 Introduction The programming
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I read the book‚ Maximum Ride: School’s Out - Forever. This book was written by James Patterson. This is the second book from the Maximum Ride series and I have really enjoyed reading it. Today‚ I would like to summarize the book and explain the characterization‚ plot elements and point of view in detail. To begin‚ the following summarizes the characterization of this novel. The main character is Maximum Ride. Maximum is the protagonist in the story. A protagonist is the main character of a
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The book Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment by James Patterson is about six kids named Max‚ Fang‚ Iggy‚ Gazzy‚ Nudge‚ and Angel. They call themselves the flock because they all have bird genes in their DNA; and they all have wings and can fly. They got the genes from a place called the School. The School is a place where scientists create mutants. Four years ago the flock escaped with the help of one of the scientists there‚ Jeb Batchelder. Two years after their escape‚ Jeb disappears and everyone
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This passage in the novel certainly makes me think about Angel’s character. She is a six-year-old child that is surprisingly strong for her age‚ but is moderately like the flock’s baby sister. Even though Maximum loves her family very
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Maximum Ride‚ the most successful result of the “Angel Experiment”‚ is a human-avian hybrid. Scientists of Itex‚ the world’s largest company‚ and Jeb experiments on several children from their embryo state to make them into bird-like mutants with wings that allow them to fly freely just like birds. In total‚ there are six of these flying-children; Angel‚ a six year old girl that can read minds and control them‚ Gasman‚ an eight year old boy‚ Iggy‚ a blind boy fourteen years old‚ Nudge‚ eleven‚ Fang
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FINS5530 HBS Case Assignment Semester 2‚ 2013 Instructor: Lixiong Guo Readings: 1. Note on Bank Loans. 2. US Bank of Washington case. Assignment: Please prepare a Credit Proposal Memo similar to the one shown in Exhibit 1 of “Note on Bank Loans”. Given the limited information you have from the case‚ you are not expected to include all components of Exhibit 1. The following is a suggested structure of your report: Purpose of the credit extension o Keep this part short
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"The six of us—me‚ Fang‚ Iggy‚ Nudge‚ the Gasman‚ and Angel—were made on purpose‚ by the sickest‚ most horrible ’scientists’ you could possibly imagine." This line shows that Max is part of a big family of genetically engineered kids who have become her family in the story. The whole book has a reoccurring theme that family is the most important thing we have in this life. I think the best theme could be identified as “Family will always come through for you.” I think this story is a great
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Describe the summary of the project case study in your own words.( What is this project all about? Include the time line‚ cost and location in your description.) The project is about building a coal-fired power plant which accomplish on 16 April‚ 2008 which 10 weeks is ahead of schedule. At the first of beginning they face rigorous tribulation‚ for example costs skyrocketed‚ skilled labor shortage and the location in middle of nowhere would make the project completion on time in jeopardy. Million
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Executive Summary In the Super Project case‚ Crosby set out to argue that the current methodologies being utilized by General Foods Corporation to determine which capital investments to pursue did not always fit the bill. Crosby advocated using alternative methods for evaluation of Super including: 1) Incremental Basis‚ 2) Facilities Used Basis‚ and 3) Fully Allocated Basis. He provided the Corporate Budgets and Analysis management team with documentation that articulated each of the methods he
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Case #22 Victoria Chemicals Synopsis and Objectives go/no-go decision 1. The identification of relevant cash flows; in particular‚ the treatment of: a. sunk costs b. cash flows obtained by cannibalizing another activity within the firm c. exploitation of excess transportation capacity d. corporate overhead allocations e. cash flows of unrelated projects f. inflation. 2. The critical assessment of a capital-investment evaluation system. 3. The treatment of conflicts of interest
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