At the grocery store, the butcher looked at me askance. Apparently, he isn’t asked for suet very often. He gave me a pound of fresh beef fat for free. I put it through the meat grinder at home and then boiled it in water for thirty minutes. After a night in the refrigerator, a ...
While you can purchase and eat foie gras for personal use in some parts of the U.S., retailers and restaurants in California are banned from selling the luxury food item. Foie gras, which translates to "fatty liver," is controversial due to the practice of force-feeding ducks and geese s...
First, we used the package's VARselect function, in conjunction with diagnostic tests, to determine (1) the type of deterministic regressors to use in global and local VAR models (i.e., none, constant, trend, or both); and (2) the appropriate number of lags for the global and local ...