Last week Jack Edwards raised the fact that Milan Lucic was the first Bruin player to join the 30 Goal / 100 Penalty Minute club in a few years. It got me thinking about the other players who have accomplished … Continue reading →
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Plot the Scoring Streak of an NHL Player with R
I am a big Boston Bruins fan and have enjoyed the ups and downs over the last few years, regardless of the catastrophes that have occurred during the playoffs. The team struggled a few weeks ago, but have recently seemed … Continue reading →
Program announced for R/Finance 2011
R/Finance, the conference devoted to users of R in the financial sector, takes place every year in Chicago. The program has just been announced for R/Finance 2011 (to be held April 29 and 30), and it's jam-packed with talks from on automated trading, financial risk, hedge ratios, stochastic volatility, and much, much, more. Here's the announcement from the organizers:...
Workflow Articles in “The Political Methodologist”
I've written a few times before about how to choose the software you work with, and what you should and should not care about when making those choices. I maintain a page with various resources related to this, if you're interested, most notably the Emacs Starter Kit for the Social Sciences. A revised version of an article...
Workflow Articles in “The Political Methodologist”
I’ve written a few times before about how to choose the software you work with, and what you should and should not care about when making those choices. I maintain a page with various resources related to this, if you’re interested, most notably the Emacs Starter Kit for the Social Sciences. A revised version of
What is R, really?
On CRAN, the official web home of all things R it says, R is a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics. Well, that sounds all hunky dory. But let’s take a close look at what this statement really … Continue reading →
Rcpp workshop in Chicago on April 28th
Overview This year's R/Finance conference will be preceded by a full-day masterclass on Rcpp and related topics which will be held on Thursday, April 28, 2011, the Univ. of Illinois at Chicago campus. Join Dirk Eddelbuettel and Romain Fr...
Rcpp workshop in Chicago on April 28th
Overview This year's R/Finance conference will be preceded by a full-day masterclass on Rcpp and related topics which will be held on Thursday, April 28, 2011, the Univ. of Illinois at Chicago campus. Join Dirk Eddelbuettel and Romain Fr...
A Simple Instrumental Variables Problem
When working with labor economics, we often run into issues with selection on variables of interest. Regressing earnings on years of education to estimate the human capital earnings function makes sense at first blush until we imagine that education is … Continue reading →
Prune GWAS data in R
Hansong Wang, our biostats professor here at the Hawaii Cancer Center, generously gave me some R code that goes through a SNP annotation file (i.e. a mapfile) and selects SNPs that are at least a certain specified distance apart. You might want to do t...
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
