From owner-bug-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Mon Nov 13 19:42:05 1995
Subject: I'd like to help with the statistics
From: Heber Farnsworth <heberf at u dot washington dot edu>
To: bug-octave at che dot utexas dot edu
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 1995 17:41:54 -0800 (PST)

Thanks for the octave-mode.el file you sent.  It works fine.  

I'd like to help with the development of Octave if I could.  I'm a Phd 
student in finance and my specialty is Econometrics, especially time 
series analysis.  I'm fairly good at Matlab and Octave so I think I could 
write some m-files that would be useful.  Perhaps you could put me in 
touch with anyone else who is working on the statistics and we could 
coordinate our efforts.

The key to good statistics procedures is optimization.  I have some 
m-files which do optimization for certain types of problems (non-linear 
least squares ,etc) and will be writing some more soon to maximize 
likelihood functions and so forth.  If someone is working on optimization 
perhaps we could talk also.

Thanks,

  Heber Farnsworth                               | Department of Finance
  Univerity of Washington                        | Box 353200
  tele:  (206) 528-0793 home                     | Seattle, WA 98195-3200
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