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Monthly Archives: January 2011
Inconsistencies in Bayesian Models of Decision-Making
But modeling devices that make sense for an unbiased decisionmaker may not make sense for a biased one. For example, why would individuals have priors and posteriors if they are destined to apply Bayes’ law incorrectly?1 A question I often ask myself. Wolfgang Pesendorfer : Behavioral Economics Comes of Age: A Review Essay on Advances
Trip to Lyon
This was my first trip to Lyon in about… 35 years, I think, but I did not have much time to tour the city! My original plan was to go climbing with Ivan near La Meije right after the talk, but our respective knees were hurting for the past week at least (since Utah in 
Will I ever be a bayesian statistician ? (part 1)
Last week, during the workshop on Statistical Methods for Meteorology and Climate Change (here), I discovered how powerful bayesian techniques could be, and that there were more and more bayesian statisticians. So, if I was to fully understand app...
Bad kitty!
The cat function bugs me a little. There are two quirks in particular that I find irritating on occasions that I use it. Firstly, almost everything that I want displayed onscreen, I want on its own line. > cat("cat messes up my command prompt position") cat messes up my command prompt position> So it would 
sab-R-metrics: Intermediate Boxplots and Histograms
Last week, I began talking about using the base graphics in R. Those graphics were pretty bland, and my hope for the next two posts is to introduce some interesting additions to the basic graphics that come from R: color, legends, lines, shapes, multiple graphs side-by-side, text, point types, and custom axes. If you have missed...
sab-R-metrics: Intermediate Boxplots and Histograms
Last week, I began talking about using the base graphics in R. Those graphics were pretty bland, and my hope for the next two posts is to introduce some interesting additions to the basic graphics that come from R: color, legends, lines, shapes, multiple graphs side-by-side, text, point types, and custom axes. If you have missed...
Call for proposals for writing a book about R (via Chapman & Hall/CRC)
Rob Calver wrote an interesting invitation on the R mailing list today, inviting potential authors to submit their vision of the next great book about R. The announcement originated from the Chapman & Hall/CRC publishing houses, backed up by an impressive team of R celebrities, chosen as the editors of this new R books series,
40 Fascinating Blogs for the Ultimate Statistics Geek!
I am happy to report that ByteMining is listed on “40 Fascinating Blogs for the Ultimate Statistics Geek“!
Some of the ones that I frequently read, or are written by Twitter friends/followers (in no particular order):
R-bloggers, an aggregate site containing blog posts tagged as posts about R. High quality content. Statistical modeling, causal inference and social science. This one is...Submit your talks for the R user conference
useR! 2011, the annual R user conference supported by the R Foundation for Statistical Computing, will be held this year in the United Kingdom at the University of Warwick (which is located, oddly enough, in Coventry). Last year's conference featured dozens of presentations on R's use in pretty much every domain of analysis, science and research. There were talks...
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
