November 2010

The avalanche of publications mentioning GO

November 30, 2010 | R on Guangchuang Yu

Gene Ontology is the de facto standard for annotation of gene products. It has been widely used in biological data mining, and I believe it will play more central role in the future. Publications mentioning GO was collected and deposited in GO ftp, and can be accessed (ftp://ftp.geneontology.... [Read more...]

RQuantLib 0.3.5

November 30, 2010 | Thinking inside the box

The new RQuantLib release 0.3.5 is now on CRAN and in Debian. RQuantLib combines (some of) the quantitative analytics of QuantLib with the R statistical computing environment and language. Most of the changes were made two and four weeks ago: fir... [Read more...]

What’s Next for Revolution R and Hadoop?

November 30, 2010 | David Smith

It's been a busy fall season for the team at Revolution Analytics. Over the past few months, we've announced major product enhancements for Revolution R -- RevoScaleR, for tackling big data sets, and RevoDeployR, for embedding Revolution R into wider applications. We've continued to add to our growing customer base ... [Read more...]

Example 8.16: Exact logistic regression

November 30, 2010 | Ken Kleinman

In example 8.15, on Firth logistic regression, we mentioned alternative approaches to separation troubles. Here we demonstrate exact logistic regression. The code for this appears in the book (section 4.1.2) but we don't show an example of it there. ...
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Hägerstrand Time-Space Cube

November 30, 2010 | Benedikt Orlowski

  With the rgl package it’s possible to interact with the 3d visualization of the timespace tracks. Code example: plot3d(lon,lat,timedate, xlim=range(lon), ylim=range(lat), zlim=range(timedate), ticktype=”detailed”, xlab=”longitude”, ylab=”latitude”, zlab=”Date”, col= as.POSIXlt(daten[,"Date"])$mday, type=”l”, main=... [Read more...]

Analysis of retractions in PubMed

November 30, 2010 | nsaunders

As so often happens these days, a brief post at FriendFeed got me thinking about data analysis. Entitled “So how many retractions are there every year, anyway?”, the post links to this article at Retraction Watch. It discusses ways to estimate the number of retractions and in particular, a recent ... [Read more...]

Data visualization videos

November 29, 2010 | Rob J Hyndman

Probably everyone has seen Hans Rosling’s famous TED talk by now. I recently came across a couple of other exceptional talks on data visualization: Hans Rosling again: Let my dataset change your mindset. If only all statistics lecturers were this dynamic! David McCandless: The beauty of data visualization. Not ... [Read more...]

Initializing the Holt-Winters method

November 29, 2010 | Rob J Hyndman

The Holt-Winters method is a popular and effective approach to forecasting seasonal time series. But different implementations will give different forecasts, depending on how the method is initialized and how the smoothing parameters are selected. In this post I will discuss various initialization methods. Suppose the time series is denoted ... [Read more...]

Sorting out Sweave in Eclipse/StatET

November 29, 2010 | Luke Miller

Using Sweave to produce pretty-looking documentation for R is awfully handy. It takes a little tweaking to get set up in Eclipse and StatET though. I followed the information in Jeromy Anglim’s webpage to originally get Sweave set up. The followi... [Read more...]

Slices and crumbs [arXiv:1011.4722]

November 29, 2010 | xi'an

An interesting note was arXived a few days ago by Madeleine Thompson and Radford Neal. Beside the nice touch of mixing crumbs and slices, the neat idea is to have multiple-try proposals for simulating within a slice and to decrease the dimension of the simulation space at each try. This ... [Read more...]

The Joy of Visualizations

November 29, 2010 | David Smith

This is a clip from the forthcoming BBC4 program, The Joy of Stats: The clip shows Hans Rosling (who we've profiled here before), plotting life expectancy versus income for various countries, and animating over time. The clip amply demonstrates that with the right presentation and story, even the simplest of ... [Read more...]

Altering Eclipse user name

November 29, 2010 | Luke Miller

Using StatET’s code generation templates is handy, but the standard Eclipse variable for ${user} just inserts the currently logged-in user’s account name. If you want a different name to appear when ${user} is called, one method is to alter... [Read more...]

John Chambers on R and Multilingualism

November 29, 2010 | David Smith

John Chambers, one of the creators of R's predecessor S and a current member of the R Core Group, gave a seminar at Stanford last week titled "R, other languages and object-oriented programming". Unfortunately, I was away for the Thanksgiving break and couldn't make it myself, but John has kindly ... [Read more...]

SAS and R joins SAS-x

November 29, 2010 | Ken Kleinman

Tal Galili, organizer of the R-bloggers blog aggregator, has opened a new aggregator for people blogging about SAS. If you're unfamiliar with the concept, an aggregator is a single blog which republishes (with permission, in this case) the entries fro...
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