# 1268 search results for "latex"

## (Another) introduction to R

May 27, 2013
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It’s Memorial Day and my dissertation defense is tomorrow. This week I’m phoning in my blog. I had the opportunity to teach a short course last week that was part of a larger workshop focused on ecosystem restoration. A fellow grad student and I taught a session on Excel and R for basic data analysis.

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## Creating a typical textbook illustration of statistical power using either ggplot or base graphics

May 26, 2013
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$Creating a typical textbook illustration of statistical power using either ggplot or base graphics$

A common way of illustrating the idea behind statistical power in null hypothesis significance testing, is by plotting the sampling distributions of the null hypothesis and the alternative hypothesis. Typically, these illustrations highlight the regions that correspond to making a type II error, type I error and correctly rejecting the null hypothesis (i.e. the test's power). In this post...

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## Veterinary Epidemiologic Research: Modelling Survival Data – Non-Parametric Analyses

May 23, 2013
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Next topic from Veterinary Epidemiologic Research: chapter 19, modelling survival data. We start with non-parametric analyses where we make no assumptions about either the distribution of survival times or the functional form of the relationship between a predictor and survival. There are 3 non-parametric methods to describe time-to-event data: actuarial life tables, Kaplan-Meier method, and

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## Generating a Markov chain vs. computing the transition matrix

May 23, 2013
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A couple of days ago, we had a quick chat on Karl Broman‘s blog, about snakes and ladders (see http://kbroman.wordpress.com/…) with Karl and Corey (see http://bayesianbiologist.com/….), and the use of Markov Chain. I do believe that this application is truly awesome: the example is understandable by anyone, and computations (almost any kind, from what we’ve tried) are easy to perform....

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## When Does the Kinetic Theory of Gases Fail? Examining its Postulates with Assistance from Simple Linear Regression in R

$When Does the Kinetic Theory of Gases Fail? Examining its Postulates with Assistance from Simple Linear Regression in R$

Introduction The Ideal Gas Law, , is a very simple yet useful relationship that describes the behaviours of many gases pretty well in many situations.  It is “Ideal” because it makes some assumptions about gas particles that make the math and the physics easy to work with; in fact, the simplicity that arises from these

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## Playing cards in Vegas?

May 19, 2013
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In a previous post, a few weeks ago, I mentioned that I will be in Las Vegas by the end of July. And I took the opportunity to write a post on roulette(s). Since some colleagues told me I should take some time to play poker there, I guess I have to understand how to play poker… so I...

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## Forecasting annual totals from monthly data

May 15, 2013
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This question was posed on crossvalidated.com: I have a monthly time series (for 2009–2012 non-stationary, with seasonality). I can use ARIMA (or ETS) to obtain point and interval forecasts for each month of 2013, but I am interested in forecasting the total for the whole year, including prediction intervals. Is there an easy way in R to obtain interval...

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## Animations Understood

May 11, 2013
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When I first saw a graphic made from Yihui’s animation package (Xie, 2013) I was amazed at the magic and thought “I could never do that”. Passage of time… One night I found myself bored and as usual avoiding work. … Continue reading →

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## Veterinary Epidemiologic Research: Count and Rate Data – Zero Counts

May 6, 2013
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$Veterinary Epidemiologic Research: Count and Rate Data – Zero Counts$

Continuing on the examples from the book Veterinary Epidemiologic Research, we look today at modelling count when the count of zeros may be higher or lower than expected from a Poisson or negative binomial distribution. When there’s an excess of zero counts, you can fit either a zero-inflated model or a hurdle model. If zero

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## How to Calculate a Partial Correlation Coefficient in R: An Example with Oxidizing Ammonia to Make Nitric Acid

Introduction Today, I will talk about the math behind calculating partial correlation and illustrate the computation in R with an example involving the oxidation of ammonia to make nitric acid using a built-in data set in R called stackloss.  In a separate post, I will also share an R function that I wrote to estimate partial correlation.

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