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## Predictive analytics: Some ways to waste time

August 17, 2012
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I am starting to take part at different competitions at kaggle and crowdanalytics. The goal of most competitions is to predict a certain outcome given some covariables.  It is a lot of fun trying out different methods like random forests, boosted ...

## Horizon Plots with plot.xts

August 17, 2012
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Anyone who has read 48 Industries (Dendrogram Ordered) Over 50 Years 48 Industries Since 1963 “Trend is Not Your Friend” Applied to 48 Industries Horizon Plots in Base Graphics More on Horizon Charts Application of Horizon Plots Horizon Plo...

## An update on visualizing Bayesian updating

August 17, 2012
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A while ago I wrote this post with some R code to visualize the updating of a beta distribution as the outcome of Bernoulli trials are observed. The code provided a single plot of this process, with all the curves overlayed on top of one another. Then John Myles White (co-author of Machine Learning for

## plot.xts is wonderful

August 16, 2012
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As mentioned in FOSS Trading post A New plot.xts yesterday “The Google Summer of Code (2012) project to extend xts has produced a very promising new plot.xts function. Michael Weylandt, the project's student, wrote R-SIG-Finance to request impressio...

## INLA: Bayes goes to Norway

August 15, 2012
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INLA is not the Norwegian answer to ABBA; that would probably be a-ha. INLA is the answer to ‘Why do I have enough time to cook a three-course meal while running MCMC analyses?”. Integrated Nested Laplace Approximations (INLA) is based … Continue reading →

## Conference Presentations

August 15, 2012
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I recently gave a talk at the Ecological Society of America (ESA) annual meeting in Portland, OR and a poster presentation at the World Congress of Herpetology meeting in Vancouver, BC, Canada. Both presentations were comparing generalized linear mixed models … Continue reading →

## Twitter coverage of the ISMB 2012 meeting: some statistics

August 15, 2012
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OK, let’s do this: some statistics and visualization of the tweets for ISMB 2012. First, thanks to Stephen Turner who got things started in this post at his excellent blog, Getting Genetics Done. Subscribe to his feed if you don’t already do so. I’ve created a Github repository for this project (and future Twitter-related work).

## (Manually) making letters with geom_path() – fun example

August 15, 2012
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Disclaimer, maybe the title should be ‘lame example’. Nothing overly exciting here. Just posting cause it took a little faffing about and someone else might like the idea. At my work (research institute) we (the social club committee) were organising … Continue reading →

## What does a generalized linear model do?

August 15, 2012
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What does a generalized linear model do? R supplies a modeling function called glm() that fits generalized linear models (abbreviated as GLMs). A natural question is what does it do and what problem is it solving for you? We work some examples and place generalized linear models in context with other techniques.For predicting a categoricalRelated posts:

## Probit Models with Endogeneity

August 15, 2012
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$Probit Models with Endogeneity$

Dealing with endogeneity in a binary dependent variable model requires more consideration than the simpler continuous dependent variable case. For some, the best approach to this problem is to use the same methodology used in the continuous case, i.e. 2 stage least squares. Thus, the equation of interest becomes a linear probability model (LPM). The