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At work, the client requested, if existing search engine could accept singular and plural forms equally, e. g. “partner” and “partners” would lead to the same result. The first option – stemming. In that case, search engine would use root of a word, e. g. “partn”. However, stemming has many weaknesses: ... [Read more...]

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I am finding myself more and more drawn to markdown rather then tex/Rnw as my standard format (not least of which is the ease of displaying the files on github, particularly now that we have automatic image uploading). One thing I miss from latex is the citation commands. (I ... [Read more...]

Hm, I realized that I announced this on Google+ (via Rcpp) as well as on Twitter, on the r-packages list, wrote a new and simple web page for it, but had not put it on my blog. So here is some catching up. Sequential Monte Carlo / Particle Filter is ... [Read more...]

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David Varadi have recently wrote two posts about Gini Coefficient: I Dream of Gini, and Mean-Gini Optimization. I want to show how to use Gini risk measure to construct efficient frontier and compare it with alternative risk measures I discussed previously. I will use Gini mean difference risk measure – the ... [Read more...]

The companion web site for Serious Stats is now live:http://www.palgrave.com/psychology/baguley/The web site includes:- a free sample chapter (Chapter 15: Contrasts)- data sets- R scripts- 5 online supplements (for meta-analysis, multiple imputation, r... [Read more...]

The companion web site for Serious stats is now live: http://www.palgrave.com/psychology/Baguley/ It includes a sample chapter (Chapter 15: Contrasts), data sets, R scripts for all the examples and supplementary material. Filed under: news, R code, ser... [Read more...]

Continuing the previous discussion of pair-wise dissimilarity between soil profiles, the following demonstration (code, comments, and figures) further elaborates on the method. A more in-depth discussion of this example will be included as a vignette w... [Read more...]

Maxim's iButton Thermochron temperature dataloggers are little silver doo-dads the size of a large watch battery that can record up to 2048 time-stamped temperature values. The internal battery is usually good for a few years of use. Maxim supplies a J... [Read more...]

This post is a slightly revised (and "blogified") version of the message Brian Peterson has sent to various R mailing lists.Once again, R has been accepted as a mentoring organization for the Google Summer of Code (2012).  We invite students interested in this program to learn more about it.  A ... [Read more...]

Compared to many other languages of equal popularity, there are realtively few development environments for R. In fact, the total number of production ready R IDEs could probably be counted on one hand. That deficiency is a small price to pay to use R ... [Read more...]

Ed Chen is a data scientist at Twitter, so he's accustomed to working with big data and complex models. In an interview with MIT Technology Review, he describes his data science toolbox: A common pattern for me is that I'll code a MapReduce job in Scala, do some simple command-line ... [Read more...]

The NIH provides financial support for a large percentage of biological and medical research in the United States. This funding supports a large number of US jobs, creates new knowledge, and improves healthcare for everyone. So I am signing this petiti... [Read more...]