I want to learn the heavy-weight of Statistical softwares - SAS. It seems like the default choice for high-end statistics and I want to understand why.I'm working in the healthcare practice in our firm and want to analyze claims and credit data (Teraby...
The blog The Average Investors Blog R posted a nice report about accelerating a default Debian R installation and added some details about his benchmarks in the comment section
As a statistician, I was trained to think of randomized experimentation as representing the gold standard of knowledge in the social sciences, and, despite having seen occasional arguments to the contrary, I still hold that view, expressed pithily by Box, Hunter, and Hunter (1978) that “To find out what happens when you change something, it
The analysis of geospatial information is currently a big trend in medicine and public health. Even though some may want to convince you that this can only be achieved with the latest and most expensive software, I am not convinced. First, analysis of spatial data dates back to at least 1856 when John Snow investigated
Today I had one of those special moments that is uniquely associated with R. One of my colleagues was trying to solve what I term an 'Excel problem'. That is, one where the problem magically disappears once a programming language is employed. Put simpl...
I write code mainly in R, and from times to times, in C, C++, SAS, bash, python, and perl. There are style guides out there that help make your code more consistent and readable to yourself and others. Here is a style guide for C++, and here is Google’s style guide for R and here... Read more »
Kaggle has released a new data-mining challenge: use data from 10 years of Wikipedia edits in order to predict future edit rates. The dataset has been anonymized in order to obscure editor identity and article identity, simultaneously adding focus to the challenge and robbing the dataset of considerable richness. I have some experience with wikipedia…
B*tchin’ six dimensional 6-cube. The rainbow colours and glass panes really help this visualisation. Examples of 6-dimensional things If it’s hard to envision 6 dimensions, consider this: the possible tunings of a guitar constitute a 6-dimensio...
B*tchin’ six dimensional 6-cube. The rainbow colours and glass panes really help this visualisation. Examples of 6-dimensional things If it’s hard to envision 6 dimensions, consider this: the possible tunings of a guitar constitute a 6-dimensio...
If you're looking for connections with expertise in R programming, the new Skills and Expertise feature on LinkedIn makes it easy. Just visit the R Skills page for a list of R practitioners on LinkedIn. You can also add "R" to your own list of skills from the same page. You also might want to consider joining the R...
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
