This note describes ParallelKnoppix, a bootable CD that allows econometricians with average knowledge of computers to create and begin using a high performance computing cluster for parallel computing in very little time. The computers used may be heterogeneous machines, and clusters of up to...

This article provides an overview of existing community-contributed commands for executing event studies. I assess which command(s) could have been used to conduct event studies that have appeared in the past ten years in three leading accounting, finance and management journals. The older...

This paper presents a Fortran 77 computer program of nonlinear least squares and a help on how to use the program. The codes are given. It is very easy to use. The user has to specify the function to be fitted to data and name the data file. It has been tested on the NIST, USA data. It has been...

This article introduces TableMaker, an Excel macro that produces publication-quality tables and includes them as new sheets in workbooks. The macro provides an intuitive graphical user interface that allows for the full customization of all table features. It also allows users to save and load...

Academic researchers access commercial websites to collect research data. This research practice is likely to increase. Is this appropriate? Is this legal? Such commercial websites are maintained to achieve business objectives; research access uses site resources for other purposes. Website...

We discuss the results of the statistical tolerance test of the General Administration Management component of the Capital Expenditure of the Bangalore Municipal Corporation which carries ahead our two previous connected studies (A. Sathyavathi (2023(a)), Analysis of the General Administration...

In continuation of our previous study (A. Sathyavathi (2023). Analysis of the General Administration Management Expenditure of the Bangalore Municipal Corporation https://www.ssrn.com/abstract=4403863 ; http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4403863 ) we propose to further analyze the sample of the...

In this very first paper of a series of forthcoming research papers of ours, which we propose to bring out in near future regarding the detailed statistical and mathematical analysis of the financial resources and the budget of the Bangalore Municipal Corporation (more appropriately now called...

The nearest correlation matrix problem is to find a valid (positive semidefinite) correlation matrix, R(m,m), that is nearest to a given invalid (non-positive semidefinite) or pseudo-correlation matrix, Q(m,m); m larger than 2. In the literature on this problem, 'nearest' is invariably defined...

In simulation we often have to generate correlated random variables by giving a reference intercorrelation matrix, R or Q. The matrix R is positive definite and a valid correlation matrix. The matrix Q may appear to be a correlation matrix but it may be invalid (negative definite). With R(m,m)...