The United Nations has declared today “World Statistics Day”. I’ve no idea what that means, or why we need a WSD. Perhaps it is because the date is 20.10.2010 (except in North America where it is 10.20.2010). But then, what happens from 2013 to 2099? And do we just forget the whole idea ... [Read more...]

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We have just posted the (mostly definitive) program for Adap’skii, January 3-4, The Canyons, Utah. This is taking place just before and as a satellite of the larger MCMSki III conference, January 4-7, same location. The registration for the conference and for lodging is available through the  MCMCSki III ... [Read more...]

With the data from the 2010 US Census to be published early next year, here's a cautionary tale from the 2000 Census. If you take a look at the ratio of numbers of men to women in the 5-Percent "PUMS" sample from the 2000 census over various ages, you'll see an odd spike ... [Read more...]

Very similar to what has been done to create a function to perform fast multiplication of large matrices using the Strassen algorithm (see previous post), now we write the functions to quickly calculate the inverse of a matrix.To avoid rewriting pages and pages of comments and formulas, as I ... [Read more...]

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hyperGTest compute Hypergeomtric p-values for over or under-representation of each GO term in the specified category among the specified gene set. *geneSample* was used as an example. Read More: 1329 Words Totally [Read more...]

The next Sunbelt Social Networks Conference (XXXI) will take place in February 2011 in St Pete Beach, Florida, USA. The preliminary program is available here. There is still time to submit abstracts (deadline is on October 29, 2010). At the conference I will be teaching the workshop “Introduction to Social Network Analysis with ... [Read more...]

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NppToR 2.5.0 supports R-2.12.0, improves saved settings and install, also retires the syntax generator. [Read more...]

Yet another reason to check out the ggplot2 wiki! [Read more...]

U.S. Congressional districts are today drawn with the aim of maximizing the electoral advantage of the state’s majority party, subject to some constraints, including compactness (which can be measured in numerous ways) and a “one person, one vote” standard. What if, instead of minimizing population variance across districts, ... [Read more...]

A fresh minor release of RProtoBuf, now at version 0.2.1, has appeared earlier today on CRAN. RProtoBuf provides GNU R bindings for the Google Protobuf data encoding library used and released by Google. This releases extends the recent 0.2.0 re... [Read more...]

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     This is the second post (previous one here) that provides an analysis of Cramer's stock recommendations based upon the Mad Money Stock Screener as of 10/15/2010.Recommendations by SegmentAs mentioned in the previous post, ... [Read more...]

The recent expiration of the Oct NG contract provided an opportunity to revisit analysis of the Oct-Jan spread.BackgroundThis spread is calculated (as all NG spreads are) based on the nearer price minus the further price.  For example on the last day the October contract traded this year (September 28), the ... [Read more...]

The winners of this year's ggplot2 case study competition have been announced. I was honoured to be asked to be a judge of the competition this year, but it was a difficult job with so many excellent entries. In the end, the judging panel (which included Heike Hoffman and Hadley ... [Read more...]

The latest Offensive Politics Housedata file has been released. This file covers 51,463 individual electronic FEC filings for US House committees from 2001 to 10/18/2010. [Read more...]