Dear all, this message is to inform the community about the activity in our function package repository: during the month of December 2024, 3 packages were updated to a new version: "graphlasso", by Sven Schreiber (graphical Lasso --- l1 shrinkage for covariance matrices) "lomackinlay", by Allin Cottrell and Sven Schreiber (Lo-MacKinlay variance ratio test for determining if a time series is a random walk process) "BACE", by Marcin Błażejowski and Jacek Kwiatkowski (Bayesian Averaging of Classical Estimates) I'll reserve a special mention for the "graphlasso", which now uses a new internal function to speed up computation. Sorry if this message comes relatively late in the month, but I was away ;) Download and enjoy! ------------------------------------------------------- Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali (DiSES) Università Politecnica delle Marche (formerly known as Università di Ancona) r.lucchetti(a)univpm.it http://www2.econ.univpm.it/servizi/hpp/lucchetti -------------------------------------------------------