My amazing, awesome wife often comes up with the little puzzles for our amazing children, and this one seemed destined to be solved in R. So, using up to 5 coins (1p, 2p, 5p, 10p, 20p and 50p) first she asked our kids whether they could make every val...
When I learned about principal component analysis (PCA), I thought it would be really useful in big data analysis, but that's not true if you want to do prediction. I tried PCA in my first competition at kaggle, but it delivered bad results. This post illustrates how PCA can pollute good predictors.
When I started examining this problem,...
Why R:Actually, It is a common practice the integration of the statistical analysis of the resulted data and in silico predictions of the data generated in your manuscript and your daily research. Mass spectrometrist, biologist and bioinformaticians c...
In this tutorial I am going to share my R&D and trading experience using the well-known from statistics Autoregressive Moving Average Model (ARMA). There is a lot written about these models, however, I strongly recommend Introductory Time Series with R, which I find is a perfect combination between light theoretical background and practical implementations in
Recently, I have been doing some analysis for a project I am involved in. In particular, I was...
During the past few decades that I have been in graduate school (no, not literally) I have boycotted JSM on the notion that “I am not a statistician.” Ok, I am a renegade statistician, a statistician by training. JSM 2012 was held in San Diego, CA, one of the best places to spend a week during the summer. This...
The Iris data set is a famous for its use to compare unsupervised classifiers. The goal is to use information about flower characteristics to accurately classify the 3 species of Iris. We can look at scatter plots of the 4 variables in the data set and see that no single variable nor bivariate combination can achieve this. One approach to improve the separation 
Thinking Strategically about Customer HeterogeneityIronically, market segmentation, whose motto is "one size does not fit all," seems to rely almost exclusively on one definition of what constitutes a segment. Borrowing its definition f...
Introduction I've recently been interested in how to communicate information using color. I don't know much about the field of Color Theory, but it's an interesting topic to me. The selection of color palettes, in particular, has been a topic I've been faced with lately. I downloaded 18 different sequential color palettes from Cynthia Brewer's
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
