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  1. ❤️💛💚 Already this Friday! Tomasz is presenting the newest version of our R package bpvars at the Ghana R Users Conference! ❤️💛💚 The package and the material is great! And the conference looks super interesting! Join us ❤️💛💚

    ❤️💛💚 bsvars.org/2026-07-Ghana-R

  2. ❤️💛💚 Already this Friday! Tomasz is presenting the newest version of our R package bpvars at the Ghana R Users Conference! ❤️💛💚 The package and the material is great! And the conference looks super interesting! Join us ❤️💛💚

    ❤️💛💚 bsvars.org/2026-07-Ghana-R

    #rstats #useR #Ghana #bpvars #bsvars

  3. That's a co-author grade 🐲 Finds a mistake in preliminary code, corrects your C++ code, submits a Pull Request, becomes a contributor! I think we have a paper! Thanks, Fei Shang!

    github.com/bsvars/bsvars/pull/

  4. That's a co-author grade 🐲 Finds a mistake in preliminary code, corrects your C++ code, submits a Pull Request, becomes a contributor! I think we have a paper! Thanks, Fei Shang!

    github.com/bsvars/bsvars/pull/

    #bsvars #rstats #cooperation

  5. 🌆 verbs are functions in our R packages 🌇 bsvars bsvarSIGNs bpvars bvars 🌆

    🌟 specify a model
    ✨ estimate it
    ⭐ compute things to interpret
    💫 forecast future values
    ✨ verify hypotheses

    💛 bsvars.org

  6. 🌆 verbs are functions in our R packages 🌇 bsvars bsvarSIGNs bpvars bvars 🌆

    🌟 specify a model
    ✨ estimate it
    ⭐ compute things to interpret
    💫 forecast future values
    ✨ verify hypotheses

    💛 bsvars.org

    #bsvars #rstats

  7. 🌆 functions verify test model and data properties in our R packages 🌇 bsvars bsvarSIGNs bpvars bvars 🌆

    🌟 verify homoskedasticity
    ✨ verify normality
    ⭐ verify restrictions on autoregressive parameters
    💫 using Bayes factors

    💛 bsvars.org

  8. 🌆 functions verify test model and data properties in our R packages 🌇 bsvars bsvarSIGNs bpvars bvars 🌆

    🌟 verify homoskedasticity
    ✨ verify normality
    ⭐ verify restrictions on autoregressive parameters
    💫 using Bayes factors

    💛 bsvars.org

    #bsvars #rstats

  9. 🌆 function forecast is used to obtain draws from the predictive density in our R packages 🌇 bsvars bsvarSIGNs bpvars bvars 🌆

    🌟 Bayesian forecasting with state-of-the-art models
    ✨ point/density forecasting
    ⭐ great plots
    💫 blazingly fast computations

    💛 bsvars.org

  10. 🌆 function forecast is used to obtain draws from the predictive density in our R packages 🌇 bsvars bsvarSIGNs bpvars bvars 🌆

    🌟 Bayesian forecasting with state-of-the-art models
    ✨ point/density forecasting
    ⭐ great plots
    💫 blazingly fast computations

    💛 bsvars.org

    #bsvars #rstats #forecasting

  11. 🌟 we use non-centred stochastic volatility for structural VARs
    ✨ with a prior for variances centred at homoskedasticity with strong shrinkage
    💫 verify partial identification of a shock
    ⭐ efficient estimation and normalisation
    💛 great for fiscal policy
    💝 the paper behind my R package bsvars

  12. 🌟 we use non-centred stochastic volatility for structural VARs
    ✨ with a prior for variances centred at homoskedasticity with strong shrinkage
    💫 verify partial identification of a shock
    ⭐ efficient estimation and normalisation
    💛 great for fiscal policy
    💝 the paper behind my R package bsvars

    #bsvars

  13. ⭐ It's official now! ✨ Our latest paper is out in the Journal of Econometrics 💫 doi.org/10.1016/j.jeconom.2025

    ⭐ Partial identification of structural vector autoregressions with non-centred stochastic volatility 💛

  14. ⭐ It's official now! ✨ Our latest paper is out in the Journal of Econometrics 💫 doi.org/10.1016/j.jeconom.2025

    ⭐ Partial identification of structural vector autoregressions with non-centred stochastic volatility 💛

    #econometrics #bsvars #identification #verification #fiscal

  15. 🌆 use our function compute to process estimation output and obtain posterior draws for quantities of interest 🌆

    🌟 impulse responses
    ✨ forecast variance decomposition
    💫 historical decomposition
    ⭐ structural shocks
    💛 fitted values
    🌟 conditional sd
    💫 regime probabilities

    🌐 bsvars.org/

  16. 🌆 to estimate is to run Bayesian estimation and obtain draws from posterior distribution 🌇

    🌐 bsvars.org/

  17. 🌇 verify! 🌆 I forgot about verify! ⭐ how could I forget about verify?! 🌟

    🤣😂😆

  18. 🌇 verify! 🌆 I forgot about verify! ⭐ how could I forget about verify?! 🌟

    🤣😂😆 #bsvars #rstats #neverForgetVerify

  19. 🌇 in our package use one of the specify functions to create model specification and customise it 🌆

    🌇 specify functions do all that:
    🌟 specify model's priors
    ✨ specify identification
    💫 create data matrices
    ⭐ create starting values

    🌐 bsvars.org/

  20. 🌇 bsvars verbs are commands used for your data analysis using our packages 🌆

    🌟 specify a model
    ✨ estimate it
    💫 compute quantities of interest
    ⭐ forecast

    🌐 bsvars.org/

  21. 🌇 bsvars verbs are commands used for your data analysis using our packages 🌆

    🌟 specify a model
    ✨ estimate it
    💫 compute quantities of interest
    ⭐ forecast

    🌐 bsvars.org/

    #bsvars #rstats

  22. 🌟 our packages come in all colours ✨ exhibit a high level of integration in terms of syntax, workflows, and design ⭐ so they are all easy for you to use 💫 you learn one - you get it all 🌟 and offer a great range of models and applications 🤩

    🌐 bsvars.org/

  23. 🌟 our packages come in all colours ✨ exhibit a high level of integration in terms of syntax, workflows, and design ⭐ so they are all easy for you to use 💫 you learn one - you get it all 🌟 and offer a great range of models and applications 🤩

    🌐 bsvars.org/

    #bsvars #bsvarSIGNs #bpvars #bvars #rstats

  24. 🖤💙 Our bpvars package includes a range of model specifications!

    🖤 they're fantastic for forecasting dynamic panel data
    💙 they provide robust basis fitting various data well

    🌐 bsvars.org/bpvars/

  25. 🖤💙 Our bpvars package includes a range of model specifications!

    🖤 they're fantastic for forecasting dynamic panel data
    💙 they provide robust basis fitting various data well

    🌐 bsvars.org/bpvars/

    #bpvars #bsvars #rstats

  26. 💙🖤 version 2.0 of our R package bpvars for forecasting with Bayesian panel vector autoregressions is out on CRAN! And it's great!

    🌐 cran.r-project.org/package=bpv

  27. 💙🖤 version 2.0 of our R package bpvars for forecasting with Bayesian panel vector autoregressions is out on CRAN! And it's great!

    🌐 cran.r-project.org/package=bpv

    #bpvars #bsvars #rstats

  28. 💙🖤 the vignette for our R package bpvars for forecasting with panel vector autoregressions has just landed on arxiv 🖤💙 It's a 40-page-long page-turner 😜

    🌐 doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2606.14

  29. 💙🖤 the vignette for our R package bpvars for forecasting with panel vector autoregressions has just landed on arxiv 🖤💙 It's a 40-page-long page-turner 😜

    🌐 doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2606.14

    #bpvars #bsvars #arxiv #rstats

  30. 🖤💙 version 2.0 of our R package bpvars for forecasting with Bayesian panel vector autoregressions has just landed on CRAN! 💙🖤 And it includes the vignette by Miguel and Tomasz 🖤💙

    🌐 cran.r-project.org/package=bpv

  31. 💘 Interested in estimating Bayesian Vector Autoregressions with Student-t errors and common Stochastic Volatility? Here's the new R package bvars 💘 How good is it?! 💘

    🌐 bsvars.org/bvars/

  32. 💘 Interested in estimating Bayesian Vector Autoregressions with Student-t errors and common Stochastic Volatility? Here's the new R package bvars 💘 How good is it?! 💘

    🌐 bsvars.org/bvars/

    #bvars #bsvars #rstats

  33. 💘 Estimation of state-of-the-art BVARs could not be easier using our new R package bvars 💘

    🌐 cran.r-project.org/web/package

    .org

  34. 💘 Estimation of state-of-the-art BVARs could not be easier using our new R package bvars 💘

    🌐 cran.r-project.org/web/package

    #bvars #bsvars.org #rstats

  35. 💘 The HEX logo for the new R package bvars is fully reproducible using R!

    Just follow the script at github.com/bsvars/hex/tree/mai

    Step 1: generate forcasts
    Step 2: generate 3D plot
    Step 3: generate hexagonal logo

  36. 💘 The HEX logo for the new R package bvars is fully reproducible using R!

    Just follow the script at github.com/bsvars/hex/tree/mai

    Step 1: generate forcasts
    Step 2: generate 3D plot
    Step 3: generate hexagonal logo

    #bvars #bsvars #rstats #hexSticker #3Dplot

  37. 💘 the new R package bvars includes state-of-the-art forecasting models 🚀

    🔭 They are most useful for macroeconomic and financial forecasting!

    🤖 the range of models is already great! ...and more to come!

    🌐 bsvars.org/bvars/

  38. 💘 the new R package bvars includes state-of-the-art forecasting models 🚀

    🔭 They are most useful for macroeconomic and financial forecasting!

    🤖 the range of models is already great! ...and more to come!

    🌐 bsvars.org/bvars/

    #bvars #bsvars #rstats #macro #fin #forecasting

  39. 💘 Our new R package bvars is for Bayesian Forecasting with Large Vector Autoregressions

    💘 It's blazingly fast and has just landed on CRAN!

    🌐 cran.r-project.org/package=bva

  40. 💘 Our new R package bvars is for Bayesian Forecasting with Large Vector Autoregressions

    💘 It's blazingly fast and has just landed on CRAN!

    🌐 cran.r-project.org/package=bva

    #bvars #bsvars #rstats

  41. 💘 Hey hey! Our new package written by Rui, Andres and Tomasz has just landed on CRAN!

    💘 bvars is the R package for Bayesian Forecasting with Large Vector Autoregressions

    💘 It's for state-of-the-art Bayesian VARs and it's blazingly fast!

    🌐 cran.r-project.org/package=bva

  42. 💘 Hey hey! Our new package written by Rui, Andres and Tomasz has just landed on CRAN!

    💘 bvars is the R package for Bayesian Forecasting with Large Vector Autoregressions

    💘 It's for state-of-the-art Bayesian VARs and it's blazingly fast!

    🌐 cran.r-project.org/package=bva

    #bvars #bsvars #rstats

  43. ✨Ha! Have a look at that! That's Adam's seminar about the bsvarSIGNs package after winning Di Cook Award for open-source research software for the Statistical Society of Australia! And we discovered it only now! 🌟

    youtube.com/watch?v=0UqwxWD0s_4

  44. ✨Ha! Have a look at that! That's Adam's seminar about the bsvarSIGNs package after winning Di Cook Award for open-source research software for the Statistical Society of Australia! And we discovered it only now! 🌟

    youtube.com/watch?v=0UqwxWD0s_4

    #rstats #bsvarSIGNs #bsvars

  45. 🚀 Aww! It's so good when the promise of open source delivers and when the community starts contributing. Bruno Cavalcante found a small but impossible-to-find-otherwise typo in my R package bsvars 💝 submitted a PR, and it's all fixed now! Thanks, Bruno! ✨ github.com/bsvars/bsvars/pull/

  46. 🚀 Aww! It's so good when the promise of open source delivers and when the community starts contributing. Bruno Cavalcante found a small but impossible-to-find-otherwise typo in my R package bsvars 💝 submitted a PR, and it's all fixed now! Thanks, Bruno! ✨ github.com/bsvars/bsvars/pull/

    #bsvars #foss #opensource #rstats

  47. 💛❤️ Awww It's finally out! Our presentation on bsvars.org design concept in which @adamwang15.bsky.social talks about the main design features for our packages!

    youtube.com/watch?v=Gmd7x0gwS7U

  48. 💛❤️ Awww It's finally out! Our presentation on bsvars.org design concept in which @adamwang15.bsky.social talks about the main design features for our packages!

    youtube.com/watch?v=Gmd7x0gwS7U

    #bsvars #bsvarSIGNs #rstats

  49. 💖 Our newest working paper is now available on arxiv: doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2603.16

    💝 We propose a new volatility model for structural vector autoregressions!

    🎀 And it's great for even more precise estimation, homoskedasticity verification, forecasting, and structural analyses!

    ❤️💛 AND the models are all implemented in my R package bsvars! Enjoy the reading and fast computations!

  50. 💖 Our newest working paper is now available on arxiv: doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2603.16

    💝 We propose a new volatility model for structural vector autoregressions!

    🎀 And it's great for even more precise estimation, homoskedasticity verification, forecasting, and structural analyses!

    ❤️💛 AND the models are all implemented in my R package bsvars! Enjoy the reading and fast computations!

    #bsvars #rstats

  51. We remember about folks inspiring and motivating us!

  52. ✨⭐ Here it comes! A new working paper with fantastic Fei Shang. That's another methodological paper for the R package bsvars! 🩷💛 Just have a look at the abstract! Rest assured we provide solid backing for each of them 🦾💪

    More details coming up soon.

  53. ✨⭐ Here it comes! A new working paper with fantastic Fei Shang. That's another methodological paper for the R package bsvars! 🩷💛 Just have a look at the abstract! Rest assured we provide solid backing for each of them 🦾💪

    More details coming up soon.

    #bsvars #forecasting #MarkovSwitching #rstats

  54. Hey hey, please join me for my webinar for the International Labour Organization next Wednesday that includes precentation of my R package bpvars 💙🖤
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    🌐 Registrations and info: ilo.org/meetings-and-events/fo

    #bsvars #bpvars #forecasting #labour #un #ilo #rstats

  55. ⬛🟦⚪ Two years in the making! In a fantastic collaboration with Miguel from the International Labour Organisation! 🖤💙 The 'bpvars' package for Forecasting with Bayesian Panel Vector Autoregressions is out on CRAN! And it's spectacular! Have a look:
    cran.r-project.org/package=bpv
    #bpvars #bsvars.org #rstats

  56. ❤️ our new package 📦 StealLikeBayes is out on CRAN now!

    It's a Compendium of Bayesian Statistical Routines Written in C++

    doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.

    #rstats #StealLikeBayes #bsvars

  57. It feels so good to give a presentation for Forecasting for Social Good 😺😻

    Have a look at the slides for my presentation 𝙥𝙧𝙚𝙙𝙞𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙚 𝙖𝙣𝙖𝙡𝙮𝙨𝙚𝙨 𝙪𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙍 𝙥𝙖𝙘𝙠𝙖𝙜𝙚𝙨 𝙗𝙨𝙫𝙖𝙧𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙗𝙨𝙫𝙖𝙧𝙎𝙄𝙂𝙉𝙨 bsvars.org/2024-12-F4SG

    And thanks so much to everybody who joined! 🩷💛 🖤🩷

    #bsvars #bsvarSIGNs #rstats #f4sg #forecasting #socialgood