>>11716712>In your list of languages if you're using Matlab you're a mechanical engineer or some sort of non-computer science engineer.I am just a pure (turned applied because $$$) mathematician who worked here and there. I have personally worked on, based on similar studies in the field, on the following topics using Matlab (again, was not my choice but rather dictated by previous research and code provided by the authors of those papers):
- modeling some fun quantum effects in thin films
- modeling bond structure under qualitative easing
- implementing some adjustments to dynamic panel regressions/VARs
- this I had to do many times - implement a newly proposed statistical test - have to basically manually do the whole MLE estimation, check convergence, etc.
Some of those I tried to do in Python but it was considerably slower (although easier to implement). R/Stata are not suited for those, although it is possible I guess.
So this
>Don't need to agree with me. but Matlab? That's a glorified calculator.just suggests that you don't have much experience and just make statements based on existing biases/prejudices.
There are some journals (at least for econometric research) that provide data/code for most of their papers, you can google it, it's not hard. Surprisingly many researchers use Matlab, almost all use Stata, and some of them use R. Python is very rarely used, understandably but unfortunately for me.
Please note I do not claim that Matlab is the best tool for these cases.
