embarrassingly easy embarrassingly parallel processing in R

Journal of Applied Econometrics

Volumn 28, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1224-1230

  Delgado, Michael S ^a   Parmeter, Christopher F ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

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EID: 84888202028     PISSN: 08837252     EISSN: 10991255     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jae.2362     Document Type: Article

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