If you want to choose randomly your next holidays destination, you are likely to process in a way which is certainly biased. Especially if you choose randomly the latitude and the longitude. A bit like they do in this lovely advertising. (For those of ...
The population of the world has been over 7 billion for about a year now. But those seven billion aren't distributed equally around the globe. 1.2 billion people — about in India alone (despite it havingjust 2% of the world's land area). At the other end of the spectrum, the entire continent of Australia houses about 0.3% of Australia....
Sometimes, as with cross-validation, one needs to generate k partitions, each with an equal number of observations. There are probably an infinite number of ways this could be done in R, but the Gist below illustrates one way to do it in four lines, w...
One-Way ANOVA Analysis of variance is a tool used for a variety of purposes. Applications range from a common one-way ANOVA, to experimental blocking, to more complex nested designs. This first ANOVA example provides the necessary tools to analyze data using this technique. This example will show a basic one-way ANOVA. I will save the
Dr. Patrick Burns is the founder of Burns Statistics, providing consulting and bespoke software specializing in quantitative finance, programming in the S language, and optimization via genetic algorithms and simulated annealing. Patrick has written m...
If you dig around enough on Amazon.com, you can find some pretty odd products (like the Badonkadonk tank now sadly unavailable). Attached to these products you can often find a new form of comedy: the funny Amazon review. The products that attract such attention can be hard to fathom: this gallon of milk has more than 1,000 reviews. (Sample:...
Check them out. Here are thirty homoskedastic ones: > homo.wiener for (j in 1:30) { for (i in 2:length(homo.wiener)) { homo.wiener for (j in 1:30) { plot( homo.wiener, type = "l", col = rgb(.1,....
Check them out. Here are thirty homoskedastic ones: > homo.wiener for (j in 1:30) { for (i in 2:length(homo.wiener)) { homo.wiener for (j in 1:30) { plot( homo.wiener, type = "l", col = rgb(.1,....
Remember the Dating Equation from a while back, that formula that determines the socially acceptable bounds for the age of a female companion given the age of the male partner? Well, the crack data analysis team at Revolution Analytics decided to take the 100 hottest celebrity couples of 2010, and create a scatterplot of the couple's ages (using R),...
As you may know, today is Pi Day, when all good nerds take a moment to thank the geeks of antiquity for their painstaking work in estimating this marvelous mathematical constant.
It is also a great opportunity to thank contemporary geeks for the wonders of modern computing, which allow us to estimate pi to near
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
