I guess that all those that tried to follow the presidential election as closely as possible are more than just a little bit exhausted mentally. I call this PEBOS - Post Election Burn Out Syndrome.Among us some concentrated on the horserace aspect of t...
We're pleased to announce that the latest update to Revolution R Enterprise is available today! Existing subscribers will soon receive an email with update instructions, and the free academic distribution will be updated later today. Version 6.1 adds a frequently-requested big-data statistical modeling algorithm, adds new connectivity option for Hadoop, improves performance, and provides new security and installation options...
After my last post on Bayesian bootstrap I got a question why the sample from Dirichlet distribution is taken as weights for calculating mean in the procedure and not as weights used for sampling from the original data set. Actually this mistake i...
Phylogenetic trees are a specialization of hierarchical clustering which elegantly capture relatedness between observations, grouping like with like. Yet hierarchical clusterings have one common complaint, as compared to density/distribution based clustering, the ability to classify the data into different types. … Continue reading →
The last few days have been trying, mostly because folks keep asking me the same questions: have you voted? Who do you think will win the election? Do you think Nate Silver (http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/) is right? How confident are you ...
Say hello to Shiny, a new R package that we’re releasing for public beta testing today. Shiny makes it super simple for R users to turn analyses into interactive web applications that anyone can use. These applications let you specify input parameters using friendly controls like sliders, drop-downs, and text fields; and they can easily 
This is a silly problem that bit me again recently. It’s an elementary mistake that I’ve somehow repeatedly failed to learn to avoid in eight years of R coding. Here’s an example to demonstrate. Suppose we create a data frame with a categorical column, in this case the heights of ten adults along with their 
![The [95%] Confidence of Nate Silver](http://beechplane.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/silvermarginoferror_thumb.png?w=258&h=430)
The headlines have been buzzing with the “triumph” of statistics and math in this election. But before I jump into how well statistics served us, let’s do a little primer on the margin of error. Whenever we measure less than the whole population we’ll have some variability in the sample. Chances are good that the 
Automated OSD lookup and display UPDATED 2013-04-08 This functionality it now available in the soilDB and sharpshootR packages. All code on this page is now superseded by the fetchOSD() and SoilTaxonomyDendrogram() functions. UPDATED 201...
Automated OSD lookup and display UPDATED 2013-04-08 This functionality it now available in the soilDB and sharpshootR packages. All code on this page is now superseded by the fetchOSD() and SoilTaxonomyDendrogram() functions. UPDATED 201...
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
