This quick blog entry to share an excellent article of Thijs van den Berg entitled Generating Correlated Random Numbers. This author describes in a nicely way how to generate sequences of correlated random numbers using the Cholesky decomposition, and a Eigenvector … Continue reading →
As promised by the R Core Group, R 2.14.2 is out. This is the final patchlevel of the R 2.14.x series (R 2.15.0 is due on March 30), and so R 2.14.2 will be the R engine for the next release of Revolution R Enterprise in a couple of months. Today also marks the 12th anniversary since R 1.0.0...
Description: Yearly production of Ethanol in the United States since 1980. Data: http://www.ethanolrfa.org/ Analysis: When it comes to fuel - especially for transportation - oil is king. In 2010, the United States imported 180.8 billion gallons ...
This is an edited version of A Direct Marketing In-flight Forecasting System. The original article was written by Shannon Terry and Ben Ogorekm, Nationwide Insurrance, in order to enter the “Applications of R in Business” contest organised by Revolution Analytics. This is the winning entry of the contest. I added some notes in the third
In order to do something to a bunch of files at once, we first need a vector which contains the file paths of just the files we are interested in. startingDir<-"/myDirectory"filez<-list.files(startingDir,pattern="searchPattern")head(filez) "/m...
INLA author Håvard Rue wrote me to point out a problem in the Functional ANOVA code given in this post. I made a mistake in setting the precision of the fixed effects (I used “default” instead of “prec”). I’ve put Håvard’s corrected version of the code below. 
Sometimes you just need a graphical messagebox....know what I mean? If only because it pops up in front of all the other open windows and alerts you to the fact that your R script is waiting for you to do something, or is finished doing something el...
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Here are the R codes of the R labs organised by Serena Arima in supplement of my lectures. This is quite impressive and helpful to the students, as illustrated by the first example below (using the abc software). I am having a great time teaching this “ABC in Roma” course, in particular because of the 
Here are a few ideas that might make for interesting student projects at all levels (from high-school to graduate school). I’d welcome ideas/suggestions/additions to the list as well. All of these ideas depend on free or scraped data, which means tha...
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
