The top six most violent municipalities are near the US border. Ciudad Juárez is in a class by itself with 113 homicides per 100,000 people. José Azueta is the municipality where Zihuatanejo is located. Mazátlan, another popular tourist destination,...
In the previous post I created a chart but could not figure out to fit the legend in the chart area. Peter Carl pointed me to the layout command which partitions the display area and allowed the the legend to be included. Source code to produce the c...
The 2010 Workshop on Algorithms for Modern Massive Data Sets (MMDS 2010) finished up this past Friday (June 18th) at Stanford. This was an exceptionally well organized conference: four days of mind-stretching talks on algorithm development and the challenges of working with massive data sets approached from almost every conceivable angle. The approximately 100...
The Rmetrics Foundation (the sharp minds behind the Rmetrics suite of packages for financial analysis in R) have just launched a new blog where you can keep up with the latest Rmetrics news. Amongst the recent news: a ne eBook about data management of Indian financial market data, and a new interface between Rmetrics...
In addition to the non-parametric tools discussed in recent entries, it's common to use proportional hazards regression, (section 4.3.1) also called Cox regression, in evaluating survival data.It's important in such models to test the proportionality a...
I posted a question to the R-Mixed-Model mailing list but have not had any responses yet:--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear All,I wonder if anybody has tried to make glmmBUGS work with JAGS. Mya...
The 2009 homicide numbers collected by the SNSP (National System of Public Security) are finally out, you can download the data from the ICESI, which is a civic institution not affiliated with the government. If you remember, one of the conclusio...
Here’s the distribution of the first million digits of the square root of two’s decimal expansion. Number of digits | is: 0's | 99 818 1's | 98 926 2's | 100 442 3's | 100 191 4's | 100 031 5's | 100 059 6's | 99 885 ...
I had to dig deep to find posts on QSAR modeling. There are quite a few on QSAR in Bioclipse, but that focuses on the descriptor calculation. In a quick scan, I could only spot two modeling posts:The CDK/Metabolomics/Chemometrics Unconference resultsWh...
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
