Each year I try to carry out some statistical consultancy to give me experience in other areas of statistics and also to provide teaching examples. Last Christmas I was approached by a paediatric consultant from the RVI who wanted to carry out prospective survival analysis. The consultant, Bruce Jaffray, had performed Nissen fundoplication surgery on 
cumsum ( rnorm(50), lend="butt", lwd=12, type="h" ) Cumulative sum of 50 draws from a normal distribution. File this under mysteries of the Central Limit Theorem.
Recently a colleague asked if I could use R/statistics to form a dream soccer team from a pool of soccer players, given basic player information like name, club, cost, points.The idea is to form a team with your preferred configuration of number of def...
Recently a colleague asked if I could use R/statistics to form a dream soccer team from a pool of soccer players, given basic player information like name, club, cost, points.The idea is to form a team with your preferred configuration of number of def...
RColorBrewer is an R packages that uses the work from http://colorbrewer2.org/ to help you choose sensible colour schemes for figures in R. For example if you are making a boxplot with eight boxes, what colours would you use, or if you are drawing...
RColorBrewer is an R packages that uses the work from http://colorbrewer2.org/ to help you choose sensible colour schemes for figures in R. For example if you are making a boxplot with eight boxes, what colours would you use, or if you are drawing...
A quick follow up to the previous post: about the the scores in the 2010 Google AI competition relative to programming language. The chart above makes each language visible and discrete - and the scales are the same.library(ggplot2)df<- read.c...
A quick follow up to the previous post: about the the scores in the 2010 Google AI competition relative to programming language. The chart above makes each language visible and discrete - and the scales are the same.library(ggplot2)df<- read.c...
Romain pushed verion 0.3.8 of inline to CRAN earlier today, and I just updated the Debian package. This version adds an internal performance enhancement which is obtained by making due with fewer reads. The short NEWS file entry follows: 0.3.8 2...
Recently I've been doing a lot of work with predictive models using logistic regression. Logistic regression is great for determing probable outcomes of a independent binary target variable. R is a great tool for accomplishing this task.&nb...
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
