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R / Finance 2010 presentations

April 20, 2010
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Last Friday and Saturday the second R / Finance conference took place in Chicago on the UIC campus. As a co-organizer, it was a great pleasure to see so many users of R in Finance---from both industry and academia---come to Chicago to discuss and sh...

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R / Finance 2010 presentations

April 20, 2010
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Last Friday and Saturday the second R / Finance conference took place in Chicago on the UIC campus. As a co-organizer, it was a great pleasure to see so many users of R in Finance---from both industry and academia---come to Chicago to discuss and sh...

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R / Finance 2010 presentations

April 20, 2010
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Last Friday and Saturday the second R / Finance conference took place in Chicago on the UIC campus. As a co-organizer, it was a great pleasure to see so many users of R in Finance---from both industry and academia---come to Chicago to discuss and shar...

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Get at least 12 observations before making a confidence interval?

April 14, 2010
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Get at least 12 observations before making a confidence interval?

How many observations should you have before constructing a confidence interval?

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Repeated measures ANOVA with R (tutorials)

April 13, 2010
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Repeated measures ANOVA is a common task for the data analyst. There are (at least) two ways of performing “repeated measures ANOVA” using R but none is really trivial, and each way has it’s own complication/pitfalls (explanation/solution to which I was usually able to find through searching in the R-help mailing list). So for future reference, I am starting this page...

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New R User Group in Dallas

April 8, 2010
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Wow, it's a big week for new R User Groups. Larry D'Agostino has started up a new R user group based in Dallas, Texas (USA). It's just getting started, and Larry posted the following request on the r-help mailing list: I would like to know if there is anyone like me interested in an R User Group in Dallas,...

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correlograms are correlicious

April 6, 2010
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correlograms are correlicious

In the last year or so, I’ve been experimenting with different ways of displaying correlation matrices, and have gotten very fond of color-coded correlograms. Here’s one from a paper I wrote investigating the relationship between personality and word use among bloggers (click to enlarge): The rows reflect language categories from Jamie Pennebaker’s Linguistic Inquiry and

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abbreviating personality measures in R: a tutorial

March 31, 2010
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abbreviating personality measures in R: a tutorial

A while back I blogged about a paper I wrote that uses genetic algorithms to abbreviate personality measures with minimal human intervention. In the paper, I promised to put the R code I used online, so that other people could download and use it. I put off doing that for a long time, because the

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Create odf, pdf and html report from a single Sweave document

March 25, 2010
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A lot of us know about Sweave and Latex and they work very well in creating elegant dynamic reports from R computation. However, sometimes we would like to also produce a word processing document for a colleague or a html version of the same report. Now there are tools for producing these like odfWeave. But

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Create odf, pdf and html report from a single Sweave document

March 24, 2010
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A lot of us know about Sweave and Latex and they work very well in creating elegant dynamic reports from R computation. However, sometimes we would like to also produce a word processing document for a colleague or a html version of the same report. Now there are tools for producing these like odfWeave. But wouldn't it be...

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