Title: Zero-coupon Yield Curve Estimation
Description: The package offers a wide range of functions for term structure estimation based on static and dynamic coupon bond and yield data sets. The implementation focuses on the cubic splines approach of McCulloch (1971, 1975) and the Nelson and Siegel (1987) method with extensions by Svensson (1994), Diebold and Li (2006) and De Pooter (2007). We propose a weighted constrained optimization procedure with analytical gradients and a globally optimal start parameter search algorithm. Extensive summary statistics and plots are provided to compare the results of the different estimation methods. Several demos are available using data from European government bonds and yields.
Author: Robert Ferstl, Josef Hayden
Maintainer: Josef Hayden

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Title: R Workspace Management
Description: R workspace management functions. The principal functions are loadws, attachws and savews. This packages provides a convenient method of accessing with R workspaces that is OS independent. In simple situations, it may replace the need for R packages.
Author: A.I. McLeod
Maintainer: A.I. McLeod

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Title: Classification and Regression Training
Description: Misc functions for training and plotting classification and regression models
Author: Max Kuhn. Contributions from Jed Wing, Steve Weston, Andre Williams, Chris Keefer and Allan Engelhardt
Maintainer: Max Kuhn

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