It’s difficult to write a book on an entire programming language and keep it manageable and concise, but The Art of R Programming does it as well as any text I’ve seen. Matloff covers, in detail and among other things, R data structures, programming idioms, performance enhancements, interfaces with other languages, debugging and graphing. Title:The
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How much does garch shorten long tails? Previously Pertinent blog posts include: “A practical introduction to garch modeling” “The distribution of financial returns made simple” “Predictability of kurtosis and skewness in S&P constituents” Induced tails Part of the reason that the distributions of returns have long tails is because of volatility clustering. It’s not really … Continue reading...
The football season has started in Netherlands, so I went and had a look at last year's scores. I did not find downloadable data, at http://www.eredivisiestats.nl/wedstrijden.php I could copy last season's data and paste into a spreadsheet. T...
People have been telling me for a while that the latest version of RStudio, the IDE for R, is a great way to generate reports. I finally got around to trying it out and for once, the hype is justified. Start with this excellent tutorial from Jeremy Anglim. Briefly: the process is not so different 
As promised in Halo Effects and Multicollinearity (my last post), I will show how to run a confirmatory factor analysis in R to test our bifactor model. In addition, I will include a dependent variable and fit a structural equation mode...
Charles Blow has an excellent op-ed in the New York Times about public education this week. The most important point he makes is that the defunding of public education is coming at precisely the time when American school children are most vulnerable:No...
As an invasion biologist, the process of spatial spread is at the heart of what I do. When I came across this dataset of Walmart store openings since 1962 I couldn’t help but see it as an invasion front which looks a lot like a biological invasion or (albeit slow) epidemic. The video shows monthly 
Economic geography of the eastern USA circa 1999, median incomes by zip code Code and data source to follow in a longer post.
Why R:Actually, It is a common practice the integration of the statistical analysis of the resulted data and in silico predictions of the data generated in your manuscript and your daily research. Mass spectrometrist, biologist and bioinformaticians c...
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
