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A surprising paper came out in the last issue of Statistical Science, linking martingales and Bayes factors. In the historical part, the authors (Shafer, Shen, Vereshchagin and Vovk) recall that martingales were popularised by Martin-Löf, who is also influential in the theory of algorithmic randomness. A property of test martingales (i.e., martingales that are non 
Are statistics sexy? Visualising social networks certainly is! I wrote a little function, which makes producing beautiful plots depicting a mailbox with R an extremely easy task. I find visualisations of ‘social graphs’ particularly appealing. They look like flowers. I … Continue reading →
Based on a related post on one of my favorite python-lists I remembered, that I wrote a similar snipplet some time ago. So if you want to dump your whole MySQL database to csv-files you can recycle the following code: ?Download mysql2cvs.R1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 require(RMySQL) m<-MySQL() summary(m) con<-dbConnect(m, dbname
Google has a "black box" prediction API that they provide for use with creating recommender systems or filtering spam. Furthermore, they provide an R package for interfacing that API, but try as I might I cannot get it to work under windows. Here are ...
For a toxicology paper we are writing up, I need to create a few plots showing how the toxic and non-toxic molecules differ (or not) with respect to a few molecular properties, such as logP or the molecular weight. The rcdk package provides all, of cou...
I'm doing a little research to validate estimates of the size of the R user community. If you're an R user, please take a minute to complete this three-question survey on R usage at your organization. Thanks in advance. Revolution Analytics: R user base survey
Let's analyze the latest FOMC policy move.The FOMC met yesterday and changed up the communications strategy. How so? Well, until yesterday the statement has been saying as of June 22, 2011:"The Committee continues to anticipat...
In my last post, I went through a lot of effort to scrape the PMI index off the ISM website. It turns out that was unnecessary effort, as commentator "senne" pointed out that this index is available from FRED, with the symbol NAPM. &nbs...
Our discussion on data visualization continues. One one side are three statisticians–Antony Unwin, Kaiser Fung, and myself. We have been writing about the different goals served by information visualization and statistical graphics. On the other side are graphics experts (sorry for the imprecision, I don’t know exactly what these people do in their day jobs
The bigmemory package in combination with doMC provides at least a partial solution for sharing a large data set across multiple cores in R. With this solution you can work on the same matrix using several threads. It is also a very scalable solution. ...
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
