I really enjoy reading the Junk Charts blog. A recent post made me wonder how easy it would be to add summary curves for small-multiple type plots, assuming the “small multiples” to summarize were the X component of a ggplot2::facet_grid(Y ~ X) … Continue reading →
Steps may be frequently found in geophysical datasets, specifically timeseries (e.g. GPS). A common approach to estimating the size of the offset is to assume (or estimate) what the statistical structure of the noise is and estimate the size and … Continue reading →
There seems to be a scale that’s tipping at the moment: Data or code that should be published* is often not. This should seem like an odd statement for anyone in science, but it should be easy to show that most publications … Continue reading →
How do you take a vector in R, and paste the individual elements together? Easy, a loop. No, bad! **slap on the wrist** Here’s an example why not. So let’s start by concatenating a few character strings and showing some … Continue reading →
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
