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MATLAB versus R

I needed to apply the Viterbi algorithm for a recent homework. The problem set suggested using the HiddenMarkov CRAN package. Here’s the help page for the dthmm function: dthmm              package:HiddenMarkov              R Documentation Discrete Time HMM Object Description: Creates a discrete time hidden Markov model object with class ‘”dthmm”‘. Usage: dthmm(x, Pi, delta, distn, pm, pn [...]

A Question

From the New York Time: A historic month for women in British poetry turned sour on Monday when the first woman in 301 years elected to Oxford University’s prestigious chair in poetry resigned and admitted what she had previously denied — that she had played a part in a covert effort to taint her main [...]