Lately I had to write a seminar paper for a class and I decided to overdo it.But let's start at the very beginning. Here is my evolution of how I used to write stuff and how I got from this:to that:School: OpenOffice - I guess everyone has some&nb...
Currently a lot of people are talking about the new shiny package. So I got curious and built an own, more or less useful app: A drink trackerThis app can be used to track how much someone drank and therefore it is very useful for every party, especial...
Have you already used trees or random forests to model a relationship of a response and some covariates? Then you might like the condtional trees, which are implemented in the party package.In difference to the CART (Classification and Regression ...
When I learned about principal component analysis (PCA), I thought it would be really useful in big data analysis, but that's not true if you want to do prediction. I tried PCA in my first competition at kaggle, but it delivered bad results. This post illustrates how PCA can pollute good predictors.
When I started examining this problem,...
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
