This is why I love XKCD, though surely the best part of this strip was the mouseover: “correlation doesn’t imply causation, but it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively and gesture furtively while mouthing, ‘look over there’.”
Monthly Archives: March 2009
Workflow with Python and R
I seem to be doing more and more with Python for work over and above using it as a generic scripting language. R has been my workhorse for analysis for a long time (15+ years in various incarnations of S+ and R), but it still has some deficiencies. I’m finding Python easier and faster to 
Short introduction to R in Finance
Adam Gehr of DePaul University's Finance Department had organized a panel session about R in Finance at the Midwest Finance Association's 58th Annual Meeting which is happening this week here in Chicago.
I just posted my slides on my presentations page. The slides give a brief overview of R, the CRAN network and the by now over 1600 packages, mention the Finance Task View,...
R User Group Meeting, London
On Tuesday March 31st, Mango Solutions are sponsoring the inaugural London R User Group Meeting. It will be a great opportunity to meet other R users and find out how people are using it. As the first one of its kind in London, I would expect a high le...
Wanderlust
We Americans have a reputation as being unworldly. Given the results of the most recent Pew survey, perhaps we deserve it. Evidently, the majority of us never move out of our home states.
Click Tracks and Beat Detection
Being a drummer, a programmer and a fan of statistical analysis, this post on the (unnaturally) perfect timing of drum parts recorded to a click track was a real delight to me. Of course, many claims in the post are odd: it seems hard to imagine that a...
RQuantLib 0.2.11
The changes in Rcpp
that I blogged
about a few days ago required a few small changes in
RQuantLib. Not
really much more that prefixing std:: in a number of
variable declarations and a few member function calls -- so this is
definitely a minor maintenance release. New source and binary packages have
already been pushed to CRAN and
Debian.
Simulate parameters of a tobit model
I got an email, asking me if our arm package can simulate tobit model to get simulated parameters. Indeed, arm does not suport tobit model. It only support sim() for lm, glm and mer classes in R. But it is not difficult to get a tobit verison of sim(). Here are the steps:1. fit a tobit...
Simulate parameters of a tobit model
I got an email, asking me if our arm package can simulate tobit model to get simulated parameters. Indeed, arm does not suport tobit model. It only support sim() for lm, glm and mer classes in R. But it is not difficult to get a tobit verison of sim(). Here are the steps:1. fit a tobit...
Project Euler Problem #28
Problem 28 on the Project Euler website asks what is the sum of both diagonals in a 1001×1001 clockwise spiral. This was an interesting one: the relationship between the numbers on the diagonals is easy to deduce, but expressing it succinctly in R...
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
