Illustrate various points in statistical theory

The following bits of code have a pedagogical dimension (?) and illustrate various points of statistical theory

Codes related to Statistics

m file Description
plotCaFuNorm.m Plots the real part of Normal characteristic function. Download
iftplay.m Inversion of a characteristic function via FFT, observation of bias and correction. Download
SimInvCdf.m Implementation of the inverse cdf method to simulate observations from a normal density. Download
simexpon.m Simulation of exponential draws obtained via the inverse CDF method. Download
simgbm1.m Simulation of a bushel of geometric Brownian motions. Download
StatCompDeltaSim.m Simulates various geometric Brownian motions as to illustrate comparative statics. Download
simnorm.m Simulation of normal N(0,1) variants as they come out of the box. Download
SimulateRW.m Simulation of a random walk. Download
SimUnif.m Simulation of uniform draws and graphical representation. Download
StkIdx.xls A database with data that may be used to play with some real data. Download
TraceSP500.m Traces the SP500 series out of the database. Download
stat1.m Illustration that the mean is a consistent estimate. Download
stat2.m Illustration that the mean is an unbiased estimate. Download
stat3.m Illustration that the variance may be biased. Download
stat3.m Illustration that the variance may be biased. Download
InverseCDFPic.m Inverse cdf method illustrated by a picture. Download
SimPoiss.m Draws a sample of Poisson distributed data. Download
TestSimPoiss.m Illustrates what goes on Download
SimCompPoiss.m Generates a Poisson process. Jumps may be of constant size or distributed normally. Process may be compensated or not. Download
TestSimCompPoiss.m Test the SimCompPoiss.m Download
Bisection.m For a given function that may be a vector but that takes a real argument compute zeros using bisection algorithm. Download
Kendall.m Computes Kendall's tau rank correlation coefficient. Download
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