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Using Regular Expressions in R: Case Study in Cleaning a BibTeX Database

March 9, 2010
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Using Regular Expressions in R: Case Study in Cleaning a BibTeX Database

I recently had to clean up a BibTeX database containing around 1,000 references. One of the clean up tasks was to ensure that page numbers were separated with en-dashes as opposed to hyphens. This post sets out how I used regular expressions in R to co...

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Posterior likelihood

March 6, 2010
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Posterior likelihood

At the Edinburgh mixture estimation workshop, Murray Aitkin presented his proposal to compare models via the posterior distribution of the likelihood ratio. As already commented in a post last July, the positive aspect of looking at this quantity rather than at the Bayes factor is that the priors are then allowed to be improper if

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Getting data from an image (introductory post)

March 5, 2010
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Getting data from an image (introductory post)

Hi there! This blog will be dedicated to data visualization in R. Why? Two reasons. First, when it comes to statistics, I am always starting by some exploratory analyses, mostly with plots. And when I handle large quantities of data, it’s nice to make some graphs to get a grasp about what is going on.

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An email about mixtures

March 4, 2010
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An email about mixtures

As a coincidence, or not, I received the following email just before starting our mixture estimation workshop (the above is Ben Nevis on Monday, whose skyline really looks like a three component mixture!) and giving a discussion on label switching: I am implementing a Markov-Chain Monte Carlo method for Gibbs sampling from a simple mixture

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New Le Monde puzzle

March 3, 2010
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New Le Monde puzzle

When I first read Le Monde puzzle this weekend, I though it was even less exciting than the previous one: find and , such that is a multiple of . The solution is obtained by brute-force checking through an R program: and then the a next solution is (with several values for N). However, while

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Be Careful Searching Python Dictionaries!

February 27, 2010
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Be Careful Searching Python Dictionaries!

For my talk on High Performance Computing in R (which I had to reschedule due to a nasty stomach bug), I used Wikipedia linking data, an adjacency list of articles and the articles to which they link. This data was linked from DataWrangling and was originally created by Henry Haselgrove. The dataset is small on disk, but I needed...

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Getting Started with Sweave: R, LaTeX, Eclipse, StatET, & TeXlipse

February 23, 2010
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Getting Started with Sweave: R, LaTeX, Eclipse, StatET, & TeXlipse

Being able to press a single button that runs all your statistical analyses and integrates the output into your final report is a beautiful thing. If you have not already heard, this is what Sweave can do for you. However, getting your computer to run ...

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Getting Started with Sweave: R, LaTeX, Eclipse, StatET, & TeXlipse

February 23, 2010
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Getting Started with Sweave: R, LaTeX, Eclipse, StatET, & TeXlipse

Being able to press a single button that runs all your statistical analyses and integrates the output into your final report is a beautiful thing. If you have not already heard, this is what Sweave can do for you. However, getting your computer to run ...

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lme4 stands 4 Linear mixed-effects…

February 19, 2010
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lme4 stands 4 Linear mixed-effects…

There is a certain hype about mixed (and random) effects among statistician and analysts. You can show some love to Douglas Bates and Martin Maechler for maintaing the lme4 package for our cupid, R I copy the entity of the information of the projects page. Doxygen documentation of the underlying C functions is here. The

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Press Enter in LyX Sweave as You Wish

February 18, 2010
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Press Enter in LyX Sweave as You Wish

or a long time I’ve been wondering why we are not able to use Enter in the LyX Scrap environment which was set up by Gregor Gorjanc for Sweave. Two weeks ago, I (finally!) could not help asking Gregor about this issue, as I’m using “LyX + Sweave” more and more in my daily work.

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