Monthly Archives: December 2009

digest 0.4.2

December 6, 2009
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digest version 0.4.2 is now on CRAN. This new version features a fix by Henrik Bengtsson who also joined the R-Forge-hosted digest project.

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digest 0.4.2

December 6, 2009
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digest version 0.4.2 is now on CRAN. This new version features a fix by Henrik Bengtsson who also joined the R-Forge-hosted digest project.

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Design of Experiments – Blocking and Full Factorial Experimental Design Plans

December 6, 2009
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When considering using a full factorial experimental design there may be constraints on the number of experiments that can be run during a particular session, or there may be other practical constraints that introduce systematic differences into an experiment that can be handled during the design and analysis of the data collected during the experiment. Blocking

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The animation package

December 5, 2009
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The animation package

The "animation" package is a good teaching tool to demonstrate some key concepts in a introductory statistics course.

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Two more R related web sites

December 5, 2009
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Two more R related web sites

R bloggersFree statistics e-booksPlanet R

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R twitts…

December 5, 2009
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R twitts…

You may already know this… #rstats I think I might get an account when get to connect to the Internet in my mobile phone

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Advances in Social Science Research Using R

December 5, 2009
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Advances in Social Science Research Using R

This seems to be a book worth buying: http://www.springer.com/statistics/business/book/978-1-4419-1763-8It will come out in May 2010.

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Because it’s Friday: The Earth, with rings

December 4, 2009
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To wind down your afternoon, relax and enjoy the view from various places around the globe of the Earth's rings in the sky ... if the Earth, like Saturn, had rings subject to the Roche Limit. YouTube: What Earth Would Look Like With Rings Like Saturn

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[S. Lynch] Introduction to Applied Bayesian Statistics and Estimation for Social Scientists

December 4, 2009
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[S. Lynch] Introduction to Applied Bayesian Statistics and Estimation for Social Scientists

Well, that’s a good book that you shouldn’t miss “Introduction to Applied Bayesian Statistics and Estimation for Social Scientists”. Why you shouldn’t miss it? Coz, it’s practical and I mean p r a c t i c a l big time!!! I don’t own tons of (traditionally) printed books but that’s one of the few breaking

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How R is disrupting a billion-dollar market

December 4, 2009
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Zack Urlocker, the EVP for Products at MySQL before it was acquired by Sun (and now an executive at Sun) has written an article at InfoWorld suggesting that the recent rash of articles looking at how IBM's acquisition of SPSS is affecting the BI market dominated by SAS are downplaying the real agent of change in the space: R....

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