One of my teaching roles is in an introductory Genetics course, where first year students are presented with a wide range of new ideas at a relatively fast pace.  It seems that often, students choose to take a memorization approach to learning the material, rather than taking the chance to ... [Read more...]

Disease Ontology (DO) provides an open source ontology for the integration of biomedical data that is associated with human disease. DO analysis can lead to interesting discoveries that deserve further clinical investigation. DOSE was designed for semantic similarity measure and enrichment analysis. Read More: 619 Words Totally [Read more...]

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Occasionally, I will query Google with “statistics conferences”, “machine learning conferences” or “pattern recognition conferences” and the like. But often, it is difficult to obtain anything meaningful other than the conferences of which ... [Read more...]

I did the Two Castles Run today; it’s a 10km race between Warwick and Kenilworth castles. The organizers were very quick to put the results online and even went the extra mile of offering them as a CSV file. It … Continue reading → [Read more...]

Earlier, I looked at the HadCRUT3vgl data set using generalized least squares to investigate whether the trend in temperature since 1995 was statistically significant. Here I want to follow-up one of the points from the earlier posting; namely using a … Continue reading → [Read more...]

(Obligatory Warning: This post should not be considered investment advice. The author(s) of this blog are not certified financial analysts. Any analysis presented here is meant only as an opinion. Following our opinion could end up losing you a lot of ... [Read more...]

Using ImageMagick it's pretty easy to make an animated gif from a set of plots. Essentially the way to do it is to save a plot for each frame of the animation and then convert them into a .gif. Here's a simple example that plots binomial density's for ... [Read more...]

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In search of bin countsI look at histograms and density functions of my data in R on a regular basis. I have some idea of the algorithms behind these, but I've never had any reason to go under the hood until now. Lately, I've been looking using the b... [Read more...]

Yesterday (June 11, 2011) the BBC reported on comments by Prof. Phil Jones, of the Climatic Research Unit (CRU), University of East Anglia (UEA), that the warming experienced by the planet since 1995 was statistically significant. That the trend in … Continue reading → [Read more...]

Recently, I’ve been playing with patterns of drought in paleo records of streamflow. One of the earliest and most helpful tools I’ve developed, identifies and characterizes droughts in extremely long time series using R. I’m still hacking my way through it, but this is what has been ... [Read more...]

After several weeks trying to find the source of a bug in the maximum entropy library when compiling on Windows, Dirk Eddelbuttel pointed me in the right direction to resolve the issue. Although it required a re-write of the library using the new Rcpp API, maximum ent [...] [Read more...]

For an integer programming class, Andrew and I were interested in seeing if some ideas from modern portfolio theory could be used to "beat the market."In particular, our goals were the following:For a particular time period, compute the covariance... [Read more...]

Yesterday (June 11, 2011) the BBC reported on comments by Prof. Phil Jones, of the Climatic Research Unit (CRU), University of East Anglia (UEA), that the warming experienced by the planet since 1995 was statistically significant. That the trend in the recent data was now significant when last year it was not, was ... [Read more...]

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Who we are cloudnumbers.com provides researchers and companies with the resources to perform high performance calculations in the cloud. We help our customers to fight epidemics, develop highly advanced drugs and manage financial risk. Our aim is to change the way research collaboration is done today by bringing together ... [Read more...]

A guest post by Christian Reusch giving a book review for the book “Financial Risk Forecasting” by Jon Danielsson. ———– As an [Read more...]