The Friday puzzle in Le Monde this week is about “friendly perfect squares”, namely perfect squares x2__10 and y2__10 with the same number of digits and such that, when drifting all digits of x2 by the same value a (modulo 10), one recovers y2. For instance, 121 is “friend” with 676. Here is ... [Read more...]

I got a copy of Martin Theus and Simon Urbanek’s Interactive Graphics for Data Analysis a couple of years ago, whence it’s been sat on my bookshelf. Since I’ve recently become a self-proclaimed expert on interactive graphics I thought it was about time I read the thing. ... [Read more...]

What I meant is to add text on a R plot when there is already legend on it. Like the left plot in above figure, another piece of text was put exactly below the legend "Pearson'r ...RMSE = 1.9". Here is the code for that: l=legend("topleft", paste(... [Read more...]

I’ve updated the R code for the enhanced K-M plot to include additions and improvements by Gil Thomas and Mark Cowley. Thanks fellows for the feedback and updates. http://statbandit.wordpress.com/2011/03/08/an-enhanced-kaplan-meier-plot/ [Read more...]

By showing off what R can do for businesses, you could share in $20,000 in prizes from Revolution Analytics. R is already used in many companies around the world, but many people who could benefit from using R still don't know what it is or how it could help them. That's ... [Read more...]

In our last post we determined that the ARIMA(2,2,2) model was just plain not going to work for us.  Although i didn't show its residuals failed to pass the acf and pacf test for white noise and the mean of its residuals was greater than three whe... [Read more...]

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