Matthew Yglesias discusses how West Virginia used to be a Democratic state but is now solidly Republican. I thought it would be helpful to expand this to look at trends since 1948 (rather than just 1988) and all 50 states... [Read more...]

OK – has this ever happened to you? You are working with a team of collaborators all using a common dataset – maybe from an Agency, and LTER, or someone else’s data altogether. Each of you has some task – incorporating new data, running fancy models and putting the results back into ... [Read more...]

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I'm trying to search for binding sites for the transcription factor MAF (i.e. TFBS for MAF) in the promoter regions of various genes. I initially started out looking at a precomputed database of binding sites MAPPER. However the TFBS models that have ... [Read more...]

When we have more than two groups in a one-way ANOVA, we typically want to statistically assess the differences between each group. Whereas a one-way omnibus ANOVA assesses whether a significant difference exists at all amongst the groups, pairwise com... [Read more...]

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This post shows how to use RClimate.txt to retrieve a climate time series and write a csv file in 5 lines of R script. One of my readers, Robert, wants to be able to download climate time series data and … Continue reading → [Read more...]

Any good stats book has to cover a bit of basic probability. That's the purpose of Chapter 5 of Using R for Introductory Statistics, starting with a few definitions: Random variable A random number drawn from a population. A random variable is ... [Read more...]

This my first post in 2011. this post has cost me a bit more than usual, but I hope it meets expectations. The aim of this tutorial is to generate an algorithm based on black box trading, with all the necessary elements for evaluation. That is a first post of several, ... [Read more...]

The CRANberries service (which reports on new and updated CRAN packages for the R language and environment) is now tweeting about new packages. Simply follow @CRANberriesFeed to receive theses messages. For the technically minded, adding this to the... [Read more...]

A regular expression allows you to do a moderately fancy search (and replace if you want). So say you wanted to replace all the "Dennis"s in a variable with "Awesome"s, but only if they're at the end of the line. You could try:-replace PBFnamevar = r... [Read more...]

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On the first article, we saw a quick-and-dirty method to predict disk space exhaustion when the usage pattern is rigorously linear. We did that by importing our data into R and making a linear regression. In this article we will see the problems with that method, and deploy a more ... [Read more...]

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The words "statistics" and "baseball" are often found near each other, but there's a lot more to statistics than dividing the number of hits by the number of swings to get a batting average. And there's a lot more to sabermetrics -- the statistical analysis of baseball -- than averages, ... [Read more...]

I’ve recently been looking at Martin Trauth‘s book MATLAB® Recipes for Earth Sciences to try to understand what some of my palaeoceanography colleagues are doing with their data analyses (lots of frequency domain time series techniques and a preponderance of … Continue reading → [Read more...]