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Censoring on one end, “outliers” on the other, what can we do with the middle?

July 8, 2011
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This post was written by Phil. A medical company is testing a cancer drug. They get a 16 genetically identical (or nearly identical) rats that all have the same kind of tumor, give 8 of them the drug and leave 8 untreated…or maybe they give them a placebo, I don’t know; is there a placebo

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What’s better than R for exploratory data plots?

April 13, 2009
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I use R for just about everything, including exploratory data analysis and graphics. The only other package with which I have any familiarity is Mathematica. I've been generally satisfied with R graphics, although there are things that I alway...

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