Update: google earth files in the box: Personally I like to look at things backwards. Why are cool sites cool? So download the kml or kmz file and you can tour 62 sites: All with 90 years of data or more. All with a cooling trend. And all “supposedly” urban. what do you see at 
This is another article on the theme of defining groups in a hierarchical classification. A previous article described homogeneity analysis to visualize how any well any number of groups, defined at the same level accounts for the variability in the da...
This is another article on the theme of defining groups in a hierarchical classification. A previous article described homogeneity analysis to visualize how any well any number of groups, defined at the same level accounts for the variability in the dataset, as measured by within-group pairwise distances. Here we will look at testing whether splitting a particular group...
The rnorm() function in R is a convenient way to simulate values from the normal distribution, characterized by a given mean and standard deviation. I hadn't previously used the associated commands dnorm() (normal density function), pnorm() (cumulative...
The impacts of drought depend on time-scale. On short time-scales, drought means dry soil. On long time-scales, it means dry rivers and empty reservoirs. A region may simultaneously experience dry conditions on one time-scale and wet conditions on another e.g. wet soil but low streamflow or visa versa. Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI) is a widely
A special double edition of the Package Update Roundup this month! This is a list of new or updated packages that were released for R in December and January, as announced on the r-packages mailing list. To include other updates on this list, please email David Smith. For a complete list of all updates on CRAN, see the CRANberries...
New PDF slides version (presented at the Bay Area R Users Meetup October 13, 2009). We at Win-Vector LLC appear to like R a bit more than some of our, perhaps wiser, colleagues ( see: Choose your weapon: Matlab, R or something else? and R and data ). While we do like R (see: Exciting Related posts:
In example 7.8, we used built-in functions to produce an empirical CDF plot. But the empirical cumulative distribution function (CDF) is simple to calculate directly, and it might be useful to have more control over its appearance than is afforded by...
The empirical cumulative density function (CDF) (section 5.1.16) is a useful way to compare distributions between populations. The Kolmogorov-Smirnov (section 2.4.2) statistic D is the value of x with the maximum distance between the two curves. As an...
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
