Here’s a nice snippet from a 2009 article by Kass that I read yesterday: According to my understanding, laid out above, statistical pragmatism has two main features: it is eclectic and it emphasizes the assumptions that connect statistical models with observed data. The pragmatic view acknowledges that both sides of the frequentist-Bayesian debate made important
Monthly Archives: September 2010
Global done!
Over the past few weeks I’ve been working at getting Moshtemp to work entirely in the raster package. I’ve been aided greatly by the author of that package, Robert, who has been turning out improvements to the package with regularity. For a while I was a bit stymied by some irregularities in getting source from 
R/Finance 2011 Call for Papers
Held annually in Chicago, R/Finance is the conference for R users in the financial services industry. This year's conference included presentations from practitioners and researchers at institutions like Invesco Asset Management, Black Mesa Capital, and some of the leading academic institutions from around the world. Next year's conference, to be held 29-30 April 2011, could include you. If you're...
New housedata release 20100923
New Housedata release of 49,914 summary filings from 7897 candidates for the US House 2002-2010.
IIATMS Guest Contribution
After my recent posts fiddling around with heat maps for pitch location, Jason at It's About the Money, Stupid contacted me to ask if I would contribute some location maps for Yankee pitchers. Obviously, I couldn't pass up the chance to contribute to ...
R Project and Google Summer of Code: Wrapping up
As this year's admin, I wrote up the following summary which has now been posted at the R site in the appropriate slot. My thanks to this year's students, fellow mentors and everybody else who helped to make it happen.
...R Project and Google Summer of Code: Wrapping up
As this year's admin, I wrote up the following summary which has now been posted at the R site in the appropriate slot. My thanks to this year's students, fellow mentors and everybody else who helped to make it happen. Projects 2010 As in 2008 a...
R Project and Google Summer of Code: Wrapping up
As this year's admin, I wrote up the following summary which has now been posted at the R site in the appropriate slot. My thanks to this year's students, fellow mentors and everybody else who helped to make it happen.
...Monte Carlo Statistical Methods third edition
Last week, George Casella and I worked around the clock on starting the third edition of Monte Carlo Statistical Methods by detailing the changes to make and designing the new table of contents. The new edition will not see a revolution in the presentation of the material but rather a more mature perspective on what 
New World Bank Data Available
Just announced: World Bank Data features and data are available. Previous posts have demonstrated how to access and plot this data using R (including the use of the R WDI package). The chart above can be created using the following pr...
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
