That's a mouthful! I presented this topic to a group of Vandy statisticians a few days ago. My notes (essentially reproduced in this post) are recorded at the Dept. of Biostatistics wiki: HowToBootstrapCorrelatedData. The presentation covers some bootstrap strategies for hierarchically structured (correlated) data, but focuses on the multi-stage bootstrap; an extension of that described
Bellow is the announcement made by Peter Dalgaard: The build system rolled up R-2.15.0.tar.gz (codename “Easter Beagle”) at 9:00 this morning. This is the first release of the 2.15 series and contains several new features and changes; see the list below for details. You can get the source code from http://cran.r-project.org/src/base/R-2/R-2.15.0.tar.gz or wait for it to be mirrored at...
I consider ggplot2 to be nothing short of a revolution in R graphics. I simply haven't found anything like this package for quickly and elegantly producing usable graphics. I covered the quick and dirty basics of ggplot2 in a previous post. Now I...
Something about that cold weather... The number of internet users in the Nordic countries has greatly outpaced the world by comparison. Denmark, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Finland - all in the elite echelon. These countries share a common ancestry -...
Why don’t X-Y plots of latitude and longitude data look “right” compared to traditional map views? For example, here’s an X-Y scatterplot of some of Jenson Button’s McLaren telemetry data from the 2010 Australian Formula One Grand Prix: The image was generated, from a data file hosted on Google Spreadsheets, using the following R script, 
I’ve recently been working with methylation data; specifically, from the Illumina Infinium HumanMethylation450 bead chip. It’s a rather complex array which uses two types of probes to determine the methylation state of DNA at ~ 485 000 sites in the genome. The Bioconductor project has risen to the challenge with a (somewhat bewildering) variety of 
a plotting system for R, based on the grammar of graphics, which tries to take...
I’m preparing “R101,” an introductory workshop on the statistical software R. Perhaps other beginners might find some use in the following summary and resources. (See also the post on resources for teaching yourself introductory statistics.) Do you have obligatory screenshots … Continue reading →
THIS BLOG DOES NOT CONSTITUTE INVESTMENT ADVICE. ACTING ON IT WILL MOST LIKELY BE DETRIMENTAL TO YOUR FINANCIAL HEALTH.After following some R-related quant finance blogs like Timely Portfolio, Systematic Investor or Quantitative tho...
This announcement was made by Hadley Wickham in the mailing list. ———————- # ggplot2 ggplot2 is a plotting system for R, based on the grammar of graphics, which tries to take the good parts of base and lattice graphics and avoid bad parts. It takes care of many of the fiddly details that make plotting a hassle (like drawing legends)...
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
