Rearranging the office to find a fresh perspective. Hasn’t been done in seven years. I feel better already. Gonna hang some pictures. Gonna set some goals. I’m not afraid to fail. Saw “True Grit” last night. I liked it.
Monthly Archives: December 2010
History makes Stat. Science!
While the above heading sounds like a title in reverse, its words are in the “correct” order in that our paper with George Casella, A Short History of Markov Chain Monte Carlo, has been accepted for publication by Statistical Science. This publication may sound weird when considering that the paper is also scheduled to appear 
R-Chart: Year End Wrap Up
Thanks to everyone who visited and commented here at R-Chart over the last year! Blogging has forced me to crystallize my thoughts and I hope others have benefited a bit from these meanderings. It it great to interact with the&nbs...
R-Chart: Year End Wrap Up
Thanks to everyone who visited and commented here at R-Chart over the last year! Blogging has forced me to crystallize my thoughts and I hope others have benefited a bit from these meanderings. It it great to interact with the&nbs...
Video of Joy of Stats by Hans Rosling
The Joy of Stats narrated by Hans Rosling was just produced by BBC and shown to their audience. Hans Rosling via gapminder.org was kind enough to post the full hour video of the documentary about joys of statistics. The video is posted on Y...
Video of Joy of Stats by Hans Rosling
The Joy of Stats narrated by Hans Rosling was just produced by BBC and shown to their audience. Hans Rosling via gapminder.org was kind enough to post the full hour video of the documentary about joys of statistics. The video is posted on Y...
R / Finance 2011 Call for Papers: Updated and expanded
One week ago, I sent the updated announcement below to the r-sig-finance list; this was kindly blogged about by fellow committee member Josh and by our pal Dave @ REvo. By now. I also updated the R / Finance conference website. So to round things ...
R / Finance 2011 Call for Papers: Updated and expanded
One week ago, I sent the updated announcement below to the r-sig-finance list; this was kindly blogged about by fellow committee member Josh and by our pal Dave @ REvo. By now. I also updated the R / Finance conference website. So to round things ...
The R Journal, Vol.2 Issue 2 is out
The second issue of the second volume of The R Journal is now available . Download complete issue Refereed articles may be downloaded individually using the links below. Table of Contents Editorial 3 Contributed Research Articles Solving Differential Equations in R Karline Soetaert, Thomas Petzoldt and R. Woodrow Setzer 5 Source
Revolutions blog: 2010 statistics
Since it's the end of the year, and since this is a statistics blog, I thought I'd pull some data from the blog server and run some number on the blog itself. Overall, the blog has doubled the average number of daily visitors and pageviews compared to 2009. The number of pageviews varies quite a lot, as you can...
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
