## Google Scholar Finds Far More SPSS Articles; Analytics Forecast Updated

March 26, 2015
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Only last August I wrote that among scholars, the use of R had probably exceeded that of SPSS to become their most widely used software for analytics. That forecast was based on Google Scholar searches focused on one year at a … Continue reading →

## Planning an R usergroup meeting in R

March 25, 2015
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The Edinburgh R usergroup (EdinbR) put together a survey a while back to figure out some of the logistical details for organising a succesful meeting. We had 75 responses...

## Participate in the 2015 Rexer Data Mining Survey

March 25, 2015
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Since 2007, Karl Rexer has been collecting data on the tools, skills and practices of statisticians and data miners. Over the years, his semi-annual Data Miner Survey has expanded...

## A function to help graphical model checks of lm and ANOVA

March 25, 2015
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As always a more colourful version of this post is available on rpubs. Even if LM are very simple models at the basis of many more complex ones, LM...

## NASDAQ 100 Couples

March 25, 2015
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Heaven, I’m in heaven, and my heart beats so that I can hardly speak, and I seem to find the happiness I seek, when we’re out together dancing cheek...

## Le Monde puzzle [#904.5]

March 25, 2015
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About this #904 arithmetics Le Monde mathematical puzzle: Find all plural integers, namely positive integers such that (a) none of their digits is zero and (b) removing their leftmost...

## Machine Learning in R for beginners

March 25, 2015
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Introducing: Machine Learning in R Machine learning is a branch in computer science that studies the design of algorithms that can learn. Typical machine learning tasks are concept learning,...

## Geomorph and Multivariate Datasets

March 25, 2015
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Did you know that geomorph is not just for landmark-based geometric morphometric (shape) data?We are committed to providing statistical tools for multivariate AND multidimensional morphometric data.As laid out in...

## A Speed Comparison Between Flexible Linear Regression Alternatives in R

March 25, 2015
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Everybody loves speed comparisons! Is R faster than Python? Is dplyr faster than data.table? Is STAN faster than JAGS? It has been said that speed comparisons are utterly meaningless,...

## Simulation and relative performance

March 24, 2015
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There’s been some nice posts on randomness the last week or so, in particular here and here. I would like to look at how we can use simulations to...

## 2015-02 New Zealand’s Climate Data in R – An Introduction to clifro

March 24, 2015
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The National Climate Database contains data collected from around 6,500 weather stations throughout New Zealand, providing a necessary repository for any study involving New Zealand’s weather or climate. Although...

## Hash Table Performance in R: Part I

March 24, 2015
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What Is It?A hash table, or associative array, is a well known key-value data structure. In R there is no equivalent, but you do have some options....

## Bio7 2.0 for Windows 32 bit Release

March 24, 2015
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24.03.2015 Because of some requests of a Windows 32 bit version of Bio7 2.0 I uploaded a built to sourceforge. Release notes: Updated R to version 3.1.3 Updated ImageJ...

## R in genomics @ SciLifeLab, Solna

March 24, 2015
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Dear diary, I went to the Stockholm R useR group meetup on R in genomics at the Stockholm node of SciLifeLab. It was nice. If I had worked a...

## R Package ‘smbinning’: Optimal Binning for Scoring Modeling

March 24, 2015
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by Herman Jopia What is Binning? Binning is the term used in scoring modeling for what is also known in Machine Learning as Discretization, the process of transforming a...

March 24, 2015
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ChainLadder is an R package that provides statistical methods and models for claims reserving in general insurance.With version 0.2.0 we added new functions to estimate the claims development...

## Spliting a Node in a Tree

March 23, 2015
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If we grow a tree with standard functions in R, on the same dataset used to introduce classification tree in some previous post, > MYOCARDE=read.table( + "http://freakonometrics.free.fr/saporta.csv", + head=TRUE,sep=";")...

## PubMed retraction reporting update

March 23, 2015
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Just a quick update to the previous post. At the helpful suggestion of Steve Royle, I’ve added a new section to the report which attempts to normalise retractions by...

## Factor Evaluation in Quantitative Portfolio Management

March 23, 2015
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When it comes to managing a portfolio of stocks versus a benchmark the problem is very different from defining an absolute return strategy. In the former one has to hold...

## Tomorrow, 10AMPT: Live webinar on "checkpoint" package

March 23, 2015
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A quick heads-up that tomorrow (Tuesday) at 10AM Pacific Time I'll be giving a live (and free) webinar: Reproducibility with Revolution R Open and the Checkpoint Package. I'll show...

## 12 new R jobs (2015-03-23)

March 23, 2015
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This is the bimonthly post (for 2015-03-23) for new R Jobs from R-users.com. Employers: visit this link to post a new R job to the R community (it’s free and quick). Job seekers: please follow the links below...

## BayesFactor updated to version 0.9.11-1

March 23, 2015
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The BayesFactor package has been updated to version 0.9.11-1. The changes are:  CHANGES IN BayesFactor VERSION 0.9.11-1CHANGES  * Fixed memory bug causing importance sampling to fail.  CHANGES IN BayesFactor...

## Hypothesis Testing: Fishing for Trouble

March 23, 2015
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Monday 23 March 2015 - 14:50 Introduction "Can you check if this is significant?" It was a seemingly innocuous question from a dangerous source:...

## Release of psd 1.0 to CRAN

March 23, 2015
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Greetings, Interweb! I’m pleased to announce psd 1.0, a long-overdue major update from the 0.* series which includes significant advancements in performance, improved clarity and consistency of documentation and method/class...

## News So Far for Geomorph v2.1.4beta

March 23, 2015
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Dear geomorph users,we have so far recognised and fixed the following bugs known to be in geomorph v.2.1.3 on CRAN, and these are available in the GitHub repository of v.2.1.4beta: ...

## PMRetract: PubMed retraction reporting rewritten as an interactive RMarkdown document

March 22, 2015
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Back in 2010, I wrote a web application called PMRetract to monitor retraction notices in the PubMed database. It was written primarily as a way for me to explore...

## Remove leading 0 with ggplot2.

March 22, 2015
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I recently had an occasion while working on a three variable interaction plot for a paper where I wanted to remove the leading 0's in the x-axis text labels...

## Western Front Battle Exchange Rates

March 22, 2015
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Introduction:GithubThe Western Front in World War One is considered a a war of outdated tactics combined with brutal efficiency of technology. And while the war saw the introduction of...

## Regression Models, It’s Not Only About Interpretation

March 22, 2015
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Yesterday, I did upload a post where I tried to show that “standard” regression models where not performing bad. At least if you include splines (multivariate splines) to take...