This post discusses ways of including formatted code in a blog post.I often write posts that include computer code. This might be R code, SPSS syntax, an Inquisit script, or a Visual Basic Macro.The Problem:Initially I did not know how to include this ...
This post originally appeared on my Wordpress blog on October 4, 2009. I present it here in its original form. In order to honor the last day of the 2009 MLB regular season (excepting the Twins/Tigers tiebreaker Tuesday night), I was reading...
This post originally appeared on my Wordpress blog on October 4, 2009. I present it here in its original form. In order to honor the last day of the 2009 MLB regular season (excepting the Twins/Tigers tiebreaker Tuesday night), I was reading...
In order to honor the last day of the 2009 MLB regular season (excepting the Twins/Tigers tiebreaker Tuesday night), I was reading a book that combines a few of my favorite thing: statistics, R, and baseball. The book, by Joseph Adler, is called Baseball Hacks, and I highly recommend it if you are interested in 
This post discusses how to calculate scale scores for multi-item scales. A lot of psychological research uses multi-item scales (e.g., personality tests, symptoms check lists, surveys, etc.). This post focuses on the issues involved with computing thes...
When I am authoring a document in Emacs, such as a report or my CV, it is useful for me to compile the source file periodically to see what the resulting file PDF looks like. I used to run a separate PDF viewer to look at the output, but I now have a complete Emacs 
David Mease has an online course presented with complete videos (Statistics 202: Statistical Aspects of Data Mining ). The course uses Excel and R.I might update this post with a few notes below on what is covered as I get a chance to watch t...
smoothScatter function is now available also in base R - in the recommended package graphics that is shipped with R. Originally this function was in the genepplotter package from Bioconductor. I really like it since it can nicely plot large datasets. B...
smoothScatter function is now available also in base R - in the recommended package graphics that is shipped with R. Originally this function was in the genepplotter package from Bioconductor. I really like it since it can nicely plot large datasets. B...
Some weeks ago I switched from Firefox to Safari. While Safari is -- in my experience -- quicker, better looking, and has Top Sites, I was also missing some functionality of firefox. To be more precise, I missed the 'search when start typing' option, a...
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
