April 2010

embed images in Rd documents

April 3, 2010 | romain francois

The new help system that was introduced in R 2.10.0 and documented in an article of the R journal is very promising. One thing that is planned for future versions of R (maybe 2.12.0) is some way to include images into Rd documents using the fig option of the Sexpr macro Another ... [Read more...]

Demonstrating the Power of F Test with gWidgets

April 2, 2010 | Yihui Xie

e know the real distribution of the F statistic in linear models — it is a non-central F distribution. Under H0, we have a central F distribution. Given 1 – α, we can compute the probability of (correctly) rejecting H0. I created a simple demo to illustrate how the power changes as other parameters ... [Read more...]

Because it’s Friday: Chatroulette

April 2, 2010 | David Smith

Yesterday, Drew Conway posted an analysis of the survival time to events on Chatroulette. If you're familiar with Chatroulette, you'll know what kind of events you can expect to occur when using it. (If you're not, here's a hint: don't try it now if you're at work.) Sadly, it was ... [Read more...]

A free book on Geostatistical Mapping with R

April 2, 2010 | David Smith

Tomislav Hengl of the University of Amsterdam has published new book, A Practical Guide to Geostatistical Mapping. It's jam-packed with 291 pages on mapping and analyzing spatial data using free software including R, SAGA, GRASS, ILWIS and Google Earth, and freely-available map data. The book itself is also available for free, ... [Read more...]

How to Produce Fake Data Analysis in R: 3 Easy Steps

April 2, 2010 | Drew Conway

Did you really think that a team of researchers spent their weekends counting the number of shirtless adolescent men and exposed penises they could find on charoulette.com? Perhaps you should not answer that, as it may be a better measure of your opinion of sociologist than gullibility. It is ... [Read more...]

CLT Standard Normal Generator

April 2, 2010 | Lee

I’ve found this standard normal random number generator in a number of places, one of which being from one of Paul Wilmott’s books. The idea is that we can use the Central Limit Theorem (CLT) to easily generate values distributed according to a standard normal distribution by using ... [Read more...]

Lookup Performance in R

April 2, 2010 | JD Long

Rumor has it that Joe Adler, author of the O’Reilly Book R in a Nutshell, has joined Linked In as a data scientist.  But that does not keep him from still pumping out some interesting content over at OReilly.com. His latest article is about lookup performance in R. ... [Read more...]

Opening Statements on Markov Chain Monte Carlo

April 1, 2010 | Ryan Rosario

This quarter I am TAing UCLA’s Statistics 102C. Introduction to Monte Carlo Methods for Professor Qing Zhou. This course did not exist when I was an undergraduate, and I think it is pretty rare to teach Monte Carlo (minus the bootstrap if you count that) or MCMC to undergrads. ... [Read more...]

Because it’s Thursday: Epidemiology of the Undead

April 1, 2010 | David Smith

Noted statistician Andrew Gelman has teamed up with occultist George Romero to address the most serious public-health threat of out time: Zombies. They've published a paper in the journal Biomastika, "How many zombies do you know?" to propose the use of indirect survey methods to measure outbreaks of the undead: ... [Read more...]

Plots in R and the ImageJ visualization

April 1, 2010 | » R

If you plot data in R and you would like to display the same data in the ImageJ view it is necessary to transfer the data matrix to ImageJ. The first thing which can be noticed is that the image data is displayed rotated because of the Bio7 approach to ... [Read more...]
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