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comment Installing CRAN Packages
It looks like it's possible to wget a binary package from a CRAN mirror right into the .../library directory. Now, I'm trying to figure out how to work with REvaluate itself.
Nov
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accepted Using a different R version with RLink
Nov
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comment Using a different R version with RLink
I would almost think that it would be easier under Mac/Linux. Meh.
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Oct
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Oct
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accepted Parentheses in pure functions: # & vs. ( # &)
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asked Parentheses in pure functions: # & vs. ( # &)
Oct
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comment Why is NDSolve solving in term of two 1st order ODE slower than 2nd order?
Yipper. Somewhere in the Mathematica documentation (I think Advanced NDSolve) there is a nice graphic for this. Method of Lines is for reducing PDEs -> set of ODES. But the resulting ODEs (and the ODE in the Mark's comment above) may be greater than 1st order, and then those are reduced to first order by techniques like substitution which result in as many 1st order equations as the order of the original nth order ODE.
Oct
15
comment Why is NDSolve solving in term of two 1st order ODE slower than 2nd order?
I'm interested in this, too. I thought Mathematica automatically decomposed the 2nd order ODE into a set of 1st order ODEs, and then those are solved. Maybe reducing the order by hand, taking into account certain simplifications that only you know, gives something faster than what Mathematica can deduce. On second read: Or maybe Mathematica finds a reduction that is better than what you have accomplished.
Oct
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comment Why is NDSolve solving in term of two 1st order ODE slower than 2nd order?
Hi drN, this is an ODE. PDE would have something like: eqns,{var1,var2,var3}, {x,0,L}, {t,0,T} :-)
Oct
12
comment 1D Euler Equations
@drN Not Sure what you mean. I was just trying different settings. Ack, yours is full of errors. = where there should be ==, {r,v,e} should be the variables, etc. Dale's code looks fine to me, though, don't know why it doesn't work.
Oct
10
comment Problem with Estimating the parameters value of gamma distribution
Sorry, folks, I did not see your comments before I made my post and my edits.
Oct
10
comment Problem with Estimating the parameters value of gamma distribution
@b.gatessucks Sorry, I did not see your comments.
Oct
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revised Problem with Estimating the parameters value of gamma distribution
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answered Problem with Estimating the parameters value of gamma distribution
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revised Different results for MaximumLikelihood depending on method?
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revised Different results for MaximumLikelihood depending on method?
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