I appreciate the advice. Thanks for commenting 🧘‍♂️

Thank you! I feel disillusioned by some of the rhetoric on this sub about undergrad institution prestige; my school will not generate any LORs on the level of other institutions. That’s why I asked, because I don’t know how much more work I need to do to try to fill that gap

Yes multivariate functions require more care to find optimal levels, with a bit more inference involved (saddle points, local min, etc). It’s not that difficult, though, and micro applications are typically easier than calc 3 problems (You will end up feeling very comfortable solving Lagrangians. Just look up Lagrangians and Hessian determinants)

Hi, good question! It extremely depends on the nature of the data you’re analyzing. I suggest taking a time-series econometrics/forecasting class. The underlying statistical process which is generating your data is of utmost concern when choosing how to forecast- look at autocorellograms and partial autocorrelograms to try to make a guess. The industry standard is to use ARIMA() function, or autoregressive/moving average (typically we can ignore I(0) or I(1) trends, although this also depends on which type of forecast we’re doing.) Ljung-Box tests (Box.test(x, lag = k, type = c(“Ljung-Box”)) in R.) You must also choose your loss function. A good place to start is quadratic/absolute value (symmetric) loss, where your point forecast is very very simply the expected value of the next period (E(u(t+1)|I) with “I” being your information set. While this is the most mathematically tractable, it will take some careful consideration to decide on your loss function (basically, how are positive/negative errors weighted?) A few other loss functions to look into are LinLin and LogLin. Finally, you must construct a density forecast to be able to make probability statements.

If all of this is essentially meaningless jargon to you, I understand…. I was there too. Much of this you would fine at any university’s forecasting lectures, so my main advice is to take a class. If you want serious hands-on help, PM me.

Cute!! Right now I am thinking Newt (as in the little girl from Aliens (1981)). I have an A. Seemanni named Ripley who’s about 1 inch longer than the new versicolor, so it kinda fits lol

Awesome. This one is about 1.5”, the website she bought her off had a big sale on well-started juveniles.

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For real 🙏🙏

Right!!

That was my first thought too 😄🖤

nooooooo not Bennett_10 😕

nah pov you are white

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