(This article was first published on Super Nerdy Cool » R, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers)
so these articles are ‘old news,’ but here i am to blog it down before i forget. First article is entitled “For Today’s Graduate, Just One Word – Statistics,” and the second article is entitled “Data Analysts Captivated by R’s Power.”
It really does feel re-enforcing and motivating when the NY Times write about your profession AND the tool you use!
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Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
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