Monthly Archives: July 2009

Simple visualization of a 11X5 table (for WordPress 2.9 Features Vote Results)

July 31, 2009
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Simple visualization of a 11X5 table (for WordPress 2.9 Features Vote Results)

I guess this is not the number one post I would like to start with on this blog, but I feel the time is right for it (community-wise). I’ll move on to the subject matter in a moment, but first a short intro: This blog is written by Tal Galili. I am an aspiring statistician...

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Simple visualization of a 11X5 table (for WordPress 2.9 Features Vote Results)

July 31, 2009
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Simple visualization of a 11X5 table (for WordPress 2.9 Features Vote Results)

I guess this is not the number one post I would like to start with on this blog, but I feel the time is right for it (community-wise). I’ll move on to the subject matter in a moment, but first a short intro: This blog is written by Tal Galili. I am ...

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Kruskal-Wallis one-way analysis of variance

July 31, 2009
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Kruskal-Wallis one-way analysis of variance

If you have to perform the comparison between multiple groups, but you can not run a ANOVA for multiple comparisons because the groups do not follow a normal distribution, you can use the Kruskal-Wallis test, which can be applied when you can not make ...

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Analysis of variance: ANOVA, for multiple comparisons

July 30, 2009
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Analysis of variance: ANOVA, for multiple comparisons

Analysis of variance: ANOVA, for multiple comparisonsThe ANOVA model can be used to compare the mean of several groups with each other, using a parametric method (assuming that the groups follow a Gaussian distribution).Proceed with the following examp...

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Comparison of two proportions: parametric (Z-test) and non-parametric (chi-squared) methods

July 29, 2009
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Comparison of two proportions: parametric (Z-test) and non-parametric (chi-squared) methods

Consider for example the following problem.The owner of a betting company wants to verify whether a customer is cheating or not. To do this want to compare the number of successes of one player with the number of successes of one of his employees, of w...

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Wilcoxon signed rank test

July 29, 2009
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Wilcoxon signed rank test

Non-parametric statistical hypothesis test, for the comparison of the means between 2 paired samplesThe mayor of a city wants to see if pollution levels are reduced by closing the streets to the car traffic. This is measured by the rate of pollution ev...

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Beta Verson of tikzDevice Released!

July 28, 2009
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The tikzDevice package provides a new graphics device for R which enables direct output of graphics in a LaTeX-friendly way. The device output consists of files containing instructions for the TikZ graphics language and may be imported directly into La...

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I know it’s been so long…

July 28, 2009
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I know it’s been so long…

Hey,I know it's been so long since last time I posted something in here, but I was really busy with my thesis and some other stuff, but now that I have more time I promise I'll post some interesting stuff in here, by the way, I found such an Interestin...

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Corpus Linguistics with R, Day 2

July 28, 2009
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R Lesson 2 text gsub ("second", "third", text) SEARCH-REPLACE-SUBJECT "This is a first example sentence." "And this is a third example sentence." > gsub ("n", "X", text) "This is a first example seXteXce." "AXd this is a secoXd example seXteXce." > gsub ("is", "was", text) "Thwas was a first...

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Corpus Linguistics with R, Day 1

July 28, 2009
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(This post documents the first day of a class on R that I took at ESU C&T. I is posted here purely for my own use.) R Lesson 1 > 2+3; 2/3; 2^3 5 0.6666667 8 --- Fundamentals - Functions > log(x=1000, base=10) 3 --- (Formals describes the syntax of...

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