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(My colleague Jean-Louis Fouley, now at I3M, Montpellier, kindly agreed to write a review on the BUGS book for CHANCE. Here is the review, en avant-première! Watch out, it is fairly long and exhaustive! References will be available in the published version. The additions of book covers with BUGS in the title and of the corresponding 
Now, after reading in data, making plots and organising commands with scripts and Sweave, we’re ready to do some numerical data analysis. If you’re following this introduction, you’ve probably been waiting for this moment, but I really think it’s a good idea to start with graphics and scripting before statistical calculations. We’ll use the silly 
Since I wrote my blog When SAP HANA met R - First kiss I had received a lot of nice feedback...and one those feedbacks was..."What's new?"...Well...as you might now SAP HANA works with R by using Rserve, a package that allows communication to an R Serv...
In case of continuously collected data, e.g. observations from a monitoring network, spatial interpolation of this data cannot be done manually. Instead, the interpolation should be done automatically. To achieve this goal, I developed the automap package. automap builds on… See more ›
This post will describe linear regression as from the book Veterinary Epidemiologic Research, describing the examples provided with R. Regression analysis is used for modeling the relationship between a single variable Y (the outcome, or dependent variable) measured on a continuous or near-continuous scale and one or more predictor (independent or explanatory variable), X. If 
Version 1.0 of multilevelPSA has been released to CRAN. The multilevelPSA package provides functions to estimate and visualize propensity score models with multilevel, or clustered, data. The graphics are an extension of PSAgraphics package by Helmreich and Pruzek. The example below will investigate the differences between private and public school internationally using the Programme of International Student Assessment...
During the course, we have seen that it is natural to assume that not only the individual claims frequency can be explained by some covariates, but individual costs too. Of course, appropriate families should be considered to model the distribution of the cost , given some covariates .Here is the dataset we’ll use, > sinistre=read.table("http://freakonometrics.free.fr/sinistreACT2040.txt", + header=TRUE,sep=";") > sinistres=sinistre...
Last week, we’ve seen how to take into account the exposure to compute nonparametric estimators of several quantities (empirical means, and empirical variances) incorporating exposure. Let us see what can be done if we want to model a binomial response. The model here is the following: , the number of claims on the period is unobserved the number of...
As a celebration of Florence Henderson’s 79th birthday (on February 14), I have created this scatterplot to use in my regression course. The plot depicts the relationship between time spent on mathematics homework outside of school (expressed as z-scores) and … Continue reading →
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
