Article archive for April, 2005

Geographical information systems (GIS) on VRDC?

April 26th, 2005

If you have interest in geographical information systems on the VRDC, please read on. [More »]

Class using VRDC

April 20th, 2005

The INFO 747 class on “Social and Economic Data“, taught in the spring of 2005 by John Abowd here at Cornell uses the VRDC for its labs. You can find more information on the class at http://instruct1.cit.cornell.edu/courses/info747.

How to use the VirtualRDC

April 20th, 2005

See this guide by Lars. Please note that the document may refer to “nero.ciser.cornell.edu”; however you should use “vrdc6401.vrdc.cornell.edu” or whatever login node you were assigned in your “Welcome to the Cornell VirtualRDC” email instead.

Userguide for the (V)RDC user interface (SuSE/KDE)

April 20th, 2005

Have a look here.

Statistical Modelling Blog by Andrew Gelman and others

April 20th, 2005

Andrew Gelman has a blog, with frequent and very detailed discussions of many different subjects. You can find it at http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~cook/movabletype/mlm/

R packages for matching/propensity scores installed

April 20th, 2005

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Availability of R on VirtualRDC

April 20th, 2005

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SAS 9.1.3 updated to SP1

April 20th, 2005

We are still waiting to update it to SP2.

Stata 8.2 available

April 20th, 2005

A 64bit compile of Stata 8.2 is available on VRDC64_01. Call it using ’Stata-se’ or ‘xstata-se’

Standardizing and matching software available at CISER

April 20th, 2005

We have repeatedly used Bill Winkler’s/Census Bureau SRD standardizer and matching software. You can find source code and binaries here.

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