1500th, 3000th, &tc

Posted on January 7, 2012 by xi'an in R bloggers | 0 Comments

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As the ‘Og reached its 1500th post and 3000th comment at exactly the same time, a wee and only mildly interesting Sunday morning foray in what was posted so far and attracted the most attention (using the statistics provided by wordpress). The most visited posts:

Title	Views
Home page	203,727
In{s}a(ne)!!	7,422
“simply start over and build something better”	6,264
Julien on R shortcomings	2,676
Sudoku via simulated annealing	2,402
About	1,876
Of black swans and bleak prospects	1,768
Solution manual to Bayesian Core on-line	1,628
Parallel processing of independent Metropolis-Hastings algorithms	1,625
Bayesian p-values	1,595
Bayes’ Theorem	1,537
#2 blog for the statistics geek?!	1,526
Do we need an integrated Bayesian/likelihood inference?	1,501
Coincidence in lotteries	1,396
Solution manual for Introducing Monte Carlo Methods with R	1,340
Julian Besag 1945-2010	1,293
Tornado in Central Park	1,093
The Search for Certainty	1,016

Hence, three R posts (incl. one by Julien and one by Ross Ihaka), three (critical) book reviews, two solution manuals, two general Bayesian posts, two computational entries, one paper (with Pierre Jacob and Murray Smith), one obituary, and one photograph news report… Altogether in line with the main purpose of the ‘Og. The most commented posts:

Post	Comments
In{s}a(ne)!!	31
“simply start over and build something better”	30
That the likelihood principle does not hold…	23
Incoherent inference	23
Lack of confidence in ABC model choice	20
Parallel processing of independent Metropolis-Hastings algorithms	19
ABC model choice not to be trusted	17
MCMC with errors	16
Coincidence in lotteries	16
Bessel integral	14
Numerical analysis for statisticians	14

Not exactly the same as above! In particular, the posts about ABC model choice and our PNAS paper got into the list. At last, the top search terms:

Search	Views
surfers paradise	1,050
benidorm	914
introducing monte carlo methods with r	514
andrew wyeth	398
mistborn	352
abele blanc	350
nested sampling	269
particle mcmc	269
bayesian p-value	263
julian besag	257
rites of love and math	249
millenium	237
bayesian p value	222
marie curie	221
bonsai	200

(out of which I removed the dozens of variations on xian’s blog). I find it rather sad that both top entries are beach towns that are completely unrelated to my lifestyle and to my vacation places. Overall, more than a half of those entries do not strongly relate to the contents of the ‘Og (even though I did post at length about Saunderson’s Mistborn and Larsson’s Millenium trilogies).