Ox 6 - An Object-Oriented Matrix Programming Language
by Jurgen A. Doornik, (2009)

Publisher: Timberlake Consultants Ltd
ISBN: 978-0-9552127-5-8
Pages: 461 pages
Price: £40.00 + p&p


Contents

Table of Contents
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Table of Contents

1. Prologue

1.1 What is Ox
1.2 Availability
1.3 Ox version
1.4 Learining Ox
1.5 Ox platforms
1.6 Ox supported data formats
1.7 Extending Ox
1.8 World Wide Wed
1.9 Online documentation
1.10 Ox-users dicussion list
1.11 Installation
1.12 Completing the basic installation
1.13 Directory structure
1.14 OX6PATH
1.15 Ox for Unix

Part I: Introduction to Ox

2. Getting started with Ox

2.1 Introduction
2.2 A first Ox program
2.3 Running the first Ox program
2.4 Online help
2.5 Using file names in Ox
2.6 Ox file extensions
2.7 More on running Ox programs
2.8 Command line arguments
2.9 Extending Ox

3. Introduction to the Ox language

3.1 Variables, types and scope
3.2 Indexing matrices
3.3 Functions and function arguements
3.4 The for and while loops
3.5 The if statement
3.6 Operations and matrix programming
3.7 Arrays
3.8 Multiple files: using #include and #import
3.9 Object-oriented programming
3.10 Sytle and Hungarian notation
3.11 Optimizing for speed
3.12 OxGauss

4. Numerical accuracy

5. How to...

6. Some matrix algebra

Part II: Function and Language Reference

7. Function summary

8. Function reference

9. Predefined Constants

9.1 Missing values (NaN)
9.2 Infinity

10. Graphics function reference

10.1 Introduction
10.2 Symbol and line types
10.3 Function reference

11. Packages

11.1 Arma package
11.2 Maximization package
11.3 Probability package
11.4 QuadPack

12. Class reference

12.1 Database and Sample class
12.2 Modelbase class
12.3 PcFiml class
12.4 PcFimlDgp class
12.5 PcNaiveDgp class
12.6 RanMC class
12.7 Simulation class

13. Language Reference

13.1 Introduction
13.2 Lexical conventions
13.3 Identifers
13.4 Objects
13.5 External declarations
13.6 Namespace
13.7 Statements
13.8 Expressions
13.9 Preprocessing
13.10 Difference with ANSI C and C++

Reference

Subject Index