You can view the application online at http://trestletechnology.net:3838/rgl/! (Bear with us as we try out the very early release of Shiny Server. There may be some downtime and manual restarts of the service required in the next couple of weeks. Please drop us a line if it’s not working as you expected.) This is an
I have been working on developing some interactive tools for demonstrating statistical principles. The advent of the shiny framework for R from the RStudio team has made this very easy to do. These demos are still in the development...
At the time of the creation of this blog, Cronbach’s 1951 piece on coefficient alpha has 18,132 citations according to google scholar. The main use of coefficient alpha is to assess internal consistency reliability of a test or survey.
Although it may have been forgotten, the proof Cronbach demonstrated established that coefficient alpha is the mean of all split...
Here’s a sneak peak into upcoming visualisation work. I’ve been working a bit on MDS (Multi-dimensional scaling), a classical technique for visualising distance data. Classical MDS is useful, but interactive MDS is *much* more useful. Using D3, a Javascript visualisation framework, it’s relatively easy to make interactive MDS plots. This example shows how basic interaction 
This a brief guide to using R in collaborative, social ways. R is a powerful open-source programming language for data analysis, statistics, and visualization, but much of its power derives from a large, engaged community of users. This is an introduction to tools for engaging the community to improve your R code and collaborate with others.
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For the introductory statistic student confidence intervals can seem a daunting concept to grasp. Quite simply put it is an interval that we have a certain measure of confidence that the population parameter falls into. The 95% confidence is the most common value chosen in my academic circle. Nevertheless, many others may be viable as well as long as...
Currently a lot of people are talking about the new shiny package. So I got curious and built an own, more or less useful app: A drink trackerThis app can be used to track how much someone drank and therefore it is very useful for every party, especial...
Merry Christmas is.R() readers! Thanks for accompanying us through an excellent first semester of R blogging, and for your feedback and enthusiasm. To celebrate, we’ve built an image mosaic from the shiny, happy avatars of our over 600 (!) Twitter followers.
We’ll be back in 2013 with...
End-of-year posts are corny but, what the heck, I think I can let myself delve in to corniness once a year. The following code gives a snapshot of what and how was R for me in 2012. So one can … Continue reading →
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
