Github Activity

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Statistical

Packages

  exuber: Econometric Analysis of Explosive Time Series

Testing for and dating periods of explosive dynamics (exuberance) in time series using the univariate and panel recursive unit root tests proposed by Phillips et al. (2015) and Pavlidis et al. (2016). The recursive least-squares algorithm utilizes the matrix inversion lemma to avoid matrix inversion which results in significant speed improvements. Simulation of a variety of periodically-collapsing bubble processes.

  ivx: Robust Econometric Inference

Drawing statistical inference on the coefficients of a short- or long-horizon predictive regression with persistent regressors by using the IVX method of Magdalinos and Phillips (2009) and Kostakis, Magdalinos and Stamatogiannis (2015) .

  transx: Transform Univariate Time Series

Univariate time series operations that follow an opinionated design. The main principle of ‘transx’ is to keep the number of observations the same. Operations that reduce this number have to fill the observations gap..

Data

Packages

  uklr: Client to United Kingdom Land Registry

Access data from Land Registry Open Data through SPARQL queries. ‘uklr’ supports the house price index, transaction and price paid data.

  onsr: Client for the 'ONS' API

Client for the ‘Office of National Statistics’ (‘ONS’) ‘Office of National Statistics’ (‘ONS’) API.

  ihpdr: Download Data from the International House Price Database

Web scraping the Dallas Fed for up-to-date data on international house prices and exuberance. Download data in tidy format.

  nationwider: Download House Price Data from Nationwide

Web craping the nationwide for up-to-date data on house price indices. Download data in tidy format.