## approximative Laplace

August 17, 2018
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I came across this question on X validated that wondered about one of our examples in Monte Carlo Statistical Methods. We have included a section on Laplace approximations in the Monte Carlo integration chapter, with a bit of reluctance on my side as this type of integral approximation does not directly connect to Monte Carlo

## Topics and Categories in the Russian Troll Tweets

August 17, 2018
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Topics and Categories in the Russian Troll Tweets I decided to return to the analysis I conducted for the IRA tweets dataset. (You can read up on...

## A Review of James Picerno’s Quantitative Investment Portfolio Analytics in R

August 17, 2018
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This is a review of James Picerno’s Quantitative Investment Portfolio Analytics in R. Overall, it’s about as fantastic a book … Continue reading →

## How to Create Sankey Diagrams From Tables (Data Frames) Using R

August 17, 2018
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Step 1: Create a Tidy data frame The very first step in creating visualizations is to get the data in a useful format. In the...

August 17, 2018
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A new RcppArmadillo release 0.9.100.5.0, based on the new Armadillo release 9.100.5 from earlier today, is now on CRAN and in Debian. It once again follows our (and Conrad's)...

## An R package to create NEWS.md files

August 17, 2018
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A while back, I started to create an R package that would help me and my collegues at STATWORX with our daily work. After writing the DESCRIPTION file, I...

## Many reports from 1 RMarkdown file

August 17, 2018
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I was at the EdinbR talk this week by the RStudio community lead – Curtis Kephart. It was really interesting, but I disagree with his suggestion to point and...

August 16, 2018
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A new RcppArmadillo release 0.9.100.5.0, based on the new Armadillo release 9.100.5 from earlier today, is now on CRAN and in Debian. It once again follows our (and Conrad's)...

## Make R speak

August 16, 2018
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Every wanted to make R talk to you? Now you can, with the mscstts package by John Muschelli. It provides an interface to the Microsoft Cognitive Services Text-to-Speech API...

## Relative risk ratios and odds ratios by @ellis2013nz

August 16, 2018
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This post tries to explain the difference between odds ratios and relative risk ratios; and how just a few letters in the code fitting a generalized linear model mean...

## Great post!

August 16, 2018
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Great post!I wanted to mention that although many previous studies have used the area under receiver operating characteristic curve (auROC) statistic to benchmark the precision, it misleads evaluators when...

## Updates to the sergeant (Apache Drill connector) Package & a look at Apache Drill 1.14.0 release

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Apache Drill 1.14.0 was recently released, bringing with it many new features and a temporary incompatibility with the current rev of the MapR ODBC drivers. The Drill community expects...

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## Bio7 2.9 Released

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16.08.2018 A new release of Bio7 is available. The new Bio7 2.9 release comes with a plethora of new R features and bugfixes. Release Notes: General: Based on Eclipse...

## Linear programming in R

August 16, 2018
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Linear programming is a technique to solve optimization problems whose constraints and outcome are represented by linear relationships. Simply put, linear programming allows to solve problems of the following kind: Maximize/minimize...

## Remaking ‘Luminance-gradient-dependent lightness illusion’ with R

August 16, 2018
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A blogpost inspired by a tweet and a YouTube video. ‘Luminance-gradient-dependent lightness illusion’ In the last days, I’ve stumbled upon this tweet: A demo of lightness perception pic.twitter.com/BSVpgcuIw1 —...

## How to capitalize on a priori contrasts in linear (mixed) models: A tutorial

August 16, 2018
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We wrote a short tutorial on contast coding, covering the common contrast coding scenarios, among them: treatment, helmert, anova, sum, and sliding (successive differences) contrasts.  The target audience is...

## Dealing with The Problem of Multicollinearity in R

August 15, 2018
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Imagine a situation where you are asked to predict the tourism revenue for a country, let’s say India. In this case, your output or dependent or response variable will...

## Basic Generalized Linear Modeling – Part 3: Exercises

August 15, 2018
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In this exercise, we will continue to solve problems from the last exercise about GLM here. Therefore, the exercise number will start at 9. Please make sure you read...

## Beyond Basic R – Mapping

August 15, 2018
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Introduction There are many different R packages for dealing with spatial data. The main distinctions between them involve the types of data they work with — raster or vector —...

## “Where to bird” geostats in R

August 15, 2018
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I just came across a nice little post on acquiring and visualizing geodata in R using the Max Planck Institute of Ornithology as an example. It’s by the rOpenSci...

## Announcing Practical Data Science with R, 2nd Edition

August 15, 2018
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We are pleased and excited to announce that we are working on a second edition of Practical Data Science with R! Manning Publications has just announced the launching of...

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## New Course: Analyzing Survey Data in R

August 15, 2018
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Here is the course link. Course Description You've taken a survey (or 1000) before, right? Have you ever wondered what goes into designing a survey and how survey responses are turned...

## Demystifying data science terminology

August 15, 2018
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The language used by data scientists can be confusing to anyone encountering it for the first time. Ever changing best practices and constantly evolving technologies and methodologies have given...

## TokyoR #71

August 14, 2018
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Last month, I was delighted to be invited to speak, along with Hadley Wickham, at the seventy-first meeting of the TokyoR user group in Tokyo, Japan. This day-long mini-conference...

## Multivariate ordinal categorical data generation

August 14, 2018
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An economist contacted me about the ability of simstudy to generate correlated ordinal categorical outcomes. He is trying to generate data as an aide to teaching cost-effectiveness analysis, and...

## BooST (Boosting Smooth Trees) a new Machine Learning Model for Partial Effect Estimation in Nonlinear Regressions

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$BooST (Boosting Smooth Trees) a new Machine Learning Model for Partial Effect Estimation in Nonlinear Regressions$

By Gabriel Vasconcelos and Yuri Fonseca   We are happy to introduce our new machine learning method called Boosting Smooth Trees (BooST) (full article here). This model was a...

## Microsoft R Open 3.5.1 now available

August 14, 2018
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Microsoft R Open 3.5.1 has been released, combining the latest R language engine with multi-processor performance and tools for managing R packages reproducibly. You can download Microsoft R Open...