The 8th international R users conference useR! 2012 will be in Nashville TN USA June 12-15 with a special all-day pre-conference course from Bill Venables on June 11. We have a terrific lineup of half-day tutorials on June 12 and will have invited and contributed presentations of interest to a wide variety of R...
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UseR! 2011 slides and videos – on one page
Links to slides and talks from useR 2011 - all organized in one page.
The present and future of the R blogosphere (~7 minute video from useR2011)
This is (roughly) the lightning talk I gave in useR2011. If you are a reader of R-bloggers.com then this talk is not likely to tell you anything new. However, if you have a friend, college or student who is a new useRs of R, this talk will offer him a decent introduction to what the...
Jonathan Rougier – Nomograms for visualising relationships between three variables
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Background: Donkeys in Kenya. Tricky to find the weight of a donkey in the “field” – no pun intended! So using three measurements, estimate the weight. Other covariates include age. Standard practice is to fit: log(weight) = a + b log(heartgirth) + c*log(Height) for adult donkeys, and other slightly different models for young/old and...
Ulrike Gromping – Design of Experiments in R
Example: Car seat occupation: Algorithm must decide whether airbag opens: Must open for adult but not for small child or if the seat if empty a few others I missed. Key questions are: What type of design: 32 run regular fractional factorial Response measurement – depends on dummy position, so repeat for 3 different...
useR Conference 2011 – Timetable
Next month I will have a chance to present how I use R to conduct a structural equation model in my thesis to the expeRts. And now the tentative timetable was just released. Similar to EurOMA, I will be the … Continue reading →
UseR! 2011 in Warwick
This year useR! conference will take place in Warwick, on August 16-18. It is being organised by the department of Statistics and funded by CRiSM and Revolution Analytics (providers of the R tee-shirt!). I wish I could attend but mid-August is usually associated with genuine (post-JSM) family vacations. Filed under: R, Statistics, University life...
Blogging about R – presentation and audio
At the useR!2010 conference I had the honor of giving a (~15 minute) talk titled “Blogging about R”. The following is the abstract I submited, followed by the slides of the talk and the audio file of a recording I made of the talk (I am sad it got a bit of “hall echo”,...
Richard Stallman talk+Q&A at the useR! 2010 conference (audio files attached)
The audio files of the full talk by Richard Stallman are attached to the end of this post. —————– Videos of all the invited talks of the useR! 2010 conference can be viewed on the R User Group blog —————– Last week I had the honor of attending the talk given by Richard Stallman,...
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
