This is just a quick note to wish you and your family a very healthy and happy holidays and wonderful New Year! I hope you enjoyed reading my blog and thank you for your comments and emails. Here is a short R code that implements an interesting idea from the Charting the Santa Claus Rally 
Version 1.0 of AQP is nearly ready-- after nearly 3 years of development, 2 years on R-Forge, and 1+ year on CRAN. Just pushed version 0.9-9 to R-Forge, and it should be on CRAN within a couple days. Recent changes are listed below, clipped from the NE...
Peter Dalgaard announced today the release of the new R version 2.14.1. Bellow is the announcement. For R users who are using windows, I suggest to also have a look at one of the following two posts, suggestion an alternative strategy for how to more easily upgrade R under Windows XP, or under windows 7 (which tends to have more permission...
Sorry for the temporary loss of GitHub gists...Hopefully dynamic views will support javascript soon!!
Source distributions of the latest maintenance release of R, R 2.14.1, are now available. Binary distributions will begin appearing on local CRAN mirrors in the next few days. This update makes a few small improvements (such as the ability to accurately count the number of available cores for parallel processing on Solaris and Windows, and improved support of grayscale...
Description:Arizona State University tuition fees from 1987-2011.Data:https://azregents.asu.edu/ABOR%20Reports/TUITION%20HISTORY.pdfAnalysis:It has been suggested that the 'cost' of tuition has remained the same throughout the years, yet the 'price' of...
A new release 0.9.8 of Rcpp is now on CRAN and will also get into Debian shortly (once I finish building R 2.14.1). This release contains a few incremental changes. Romain, sponsored by by the Open Source Programs Office at Google, had released a...
Those of you following my occasional updates here know that I have previously posted code for graphing Twitter friend/follower networks using R (post #1. post #2). Kai Heinrich was kind enough to send me some updated code for doing so using a newer version of the extremely useful twitteR package. His very crisp, yet thoroughly
About a month ago I was discussing the approach that I would like to see in introductory Bayesian statistics books. In that post I mentioned a PDF copy of Doing Bayesian Data Analysis by John K. Kruschke and that I … Continue reading →
Following on from my previous post about US Federal Reserve inflation forecast errors, I decided to put together a descriptive graph to see if there might be a partisan bias to these forecast erros. Also, given all of the work in the political eco...
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
