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Jean-Michel (aka Jean-Claude!) Marin came for a few days so that we could make late progress on the revision of our book Bayesian Core towards an Use R! version. In one of the R programs in the mixture chapter, we were getting improbable answers, until we found an R mistake in the shape of which 
Scrabble is a game that involves both skill and luck. There's skill in knowing the words you can play and — especially — the most advantageous ways to play them. But there's also luck in the tiles you draw randomly from the bag: get saddled with a rack containing four I's and there's usually not much you can do....
Sooner on later, every useR will manage to exhaust R’s built-in capabilities and land on CRAN looking for his dreamed needle in a haystack of 3k+ contributed packages. Probably most of you already know stuff like Task Views or rseek which make finding something relevant a bit easier than digging the full list or googling, however all methods
Somewhat later than I originally planned, JAGS 3.0.0 is released and can be downloaded from Sourceforge. The corresponding R interface package rjags has been uploaded to CRAN There are no new modules or features in this release. I have been … Continue reading →
Rahul Dravid is a fantastic cricketer, and a role model for younger generation - focused, hardworking and humble.Dravid recently became the 2nd highest scorer in Test Cricket (Sachin Tendulkar is the leading scorer). His contribution to India...
For SAS users, one hassle in trying things in R, let alone migrating, is the difficulty of getting data out of SAS and into R. In our book (section 1.2.2) and in a blog entry we've covered getting data out of SAS native data sets. Unfortunately, for ...
psych::pairs.panels and corrgram::corrgram using mtcars data Core Ideas: multivariate modeling is challenging pair plots make it easy to get a quick understanding of each variable and the relationships between them Multivariate analysis and modeling ca...
I just discovered a handy function in R to produce a scatterplot matrix of selected variables in a dataset. The base graphics function is pairs(). Producing these plots can be helpful in exploring your data, especially using the second method below.Try...
Fast on the heels of getting RomanM’s code up and running in RghcnV3, Nick Stokes whipped out a version of his approach which he covered on his blog here: We exchanged code and few mails thrashing through details and I’m now in a position to start the integration work of his approach into Rghcnv3. In 
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
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