After our recent discussion of semigraphic displays, Jay Ulfelder sent along a semigraphic table from his recent book. He notes, "When countries are the units of analysis, it's nice that you can use three-letter codes, so all the proper names....
Monthly Archives: October 2010
Bayesian Model Averaging (BMA) with uncertain Spatial Effects
This file illustrates the computer code to use spatial filtering in the context of Bayesian Model Averaging (BMA). For more details and in case you use the code please cite Crespo Cuaresma and Feldkircher (2010). In addition, this tutorial exists as ...
The class of Donald Bradman
This post is a response to a comment on Cricinfo on Donald Bradman about his inclusion in All Time World XI. AK47_pk said,"7 innings against westindies, 7 against south afriqa, 5 against india nd 61 against englnd(so basicly he only played against...
The class of Donald Bradman
This post is a response to a comment on Cricinfo on Donald Bradman about his inclusion in All Time World XI. AK47_pk said,"7 innings against westindies, 7 against south afriqa, 5 against india nd 61 against englnd(so basicly he only played against...
Handling Large Datasets in R
Handling large dataset in R, especially CSV data, was briefly discussed before at Excellent free CSV splitter and Handling Large CSV Files in R. My file at that time was around 2GB with 30 million number of rows and 8 columns. Recently I started to collect and analyze US corporate bonds tick data from year...
DEADLINE EXTENDED — CFP: Special Issue in JSS for "Magnetic Resonance Imaging in R"
Magnetic Resonance Imaging in R The deadline for submission to the Special Issue of the Journal of Statistical Software(JSS - http://www.jstatsoft.org) has been extended to November 14, 2010.All MRI modalities are welcome, for example, structural ...
DEADLINE EXTENDED — CFP: Special Issue in JSS for "Magnetic Resonance Imaging in R"
Magnetic Resonance Imaging in R The deadline for submission to the Special Issue of the Journal of Statistical Software(JSS - http://www.jstatsoft.org) has been extended to November 14, 2010.All MRI modalities are welcome, for example, structural ...
R nominated for best open-source project in New Zealand
The R project, born in New Zealand in 1993, has been nominated as the best open-source project in the New Zealand Open-Source Awards 2010. R's co-creator Ross Ihaka talks about the project in this article by the New Zealand Herald: Ross Ihaka from the University of Auckland started developing R 20 years ago, but it took off about a...
September Anomaly Trends Show Global Warming Continues: Update 1
In this post I present a trend chart which shows the September anomaly trends for the 5 major global temperature anomaly series and a table that shows how September 2010 ranks over the entire record for each series. The source … Continue reading ...
Example 8.11: violin plots
We've continued to get useful feedback and ideas from our posts on the combination dotplot/boxplot and other ways to craft similar displays. Another notion is the violin plot, which combines a boxplot and a (doubled) kernel density plot. While the ba...
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
