Encouraged by this post I had another look at quandl for collecting datasets from different agencies. Right now I need to get data for four countries on a couple of dozen indicators. This graphic is just a quick example with only two indicators of what I am aiming to be ... [Read more...]

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I like heatplots with p-values -or frequencies, or whatever-. Not very conclusive, but pretty anyway. And when talking about graphs, pretty will make our neurons to fire in more interesting ways: neurons like “pretty” graphs. Moreover, observing your data can … Sigue leyendo → [Read more...]

Reblogged from Zero to R Hero: Canadian Aquatic Invasive Species Networks Annual General Meeting in Kananaskis, Alberta. May 03, 3:25-5:30. This 2-hour workshop will focus on how and why we do numerical simulation in R. Time permitting, we will also look at how to build and fit likelihood based statistical models. ... [Read more...]

Hi Morphometricians! We've enhanced geomorph's ability to continuously digitize multiple specimens' images in 2d, if these are within the same directory. This new function allows one to digitize 2d images without interruption. Thanks to Samuel Brown and Karl Fetter for suggesting the improvement. We will incorporate this function in our ... [Read more...]

In the course on claims reserving techniques, I did mention the use of Poisson regression, even if incremental payments were not integers. For instance, we did consider incremental triangles __ source("http://perso.univ-rennes1.fr/arthur.charpentier/bases.R") __ INC=PAID __ INC[,2:6]=PAID[,2:6]-PAID[,1:5] __ INC [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] [,5] [,6] [1,] 3209 1163 39 17 7 21 [2,] 3367 1292 37 24 10 NA [3,] 3871 1474 53 22 NA NA [4,] 4239 1678 103 NA NA NA [5,] 4929 1865 ... [Read more...]

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by Thomas Dinsmore On April 26, SAS published on its website an undated Technical Paper entitled Big Data Analytics: Benchmarking SAS, R and Mahout. In the paper, the authors (Allison J. Ames, Ralph Abbey and Wayne Thompson) describe a recent project to compare model quality, product completeness and ease of use ... [Read more...]

This post is actually about replicating the figures in Otto and Day: A Biologist’s Guide to Mathematical Modeling in Ecology and Evolution. The figures I’m interested in for this post are Figures 9.1 and 9.2 in the chapter ‘General Solutions … Continue reading → [Read more...]

  Within 2 weeks on Friday, May 24, The RBelgium R user group is holding its next Regular meeting in Leuven for which this is the schedule: ** Jonathan Cornelissen - DataMind  Discover DataMind, a new online learning platform for d... [Read more...]

At School we use R across many courses, because students are supposed to use statistics under a variety of contexts. Imagine their disappointment when they pass stats and discovered that R and statistics haven’t gone away! When students start working with real data sets one of their first stumbling ... [Read more...]

I love the syntax of calls to lm and ggplot, wherein the dataframe is specified as a variable and specific columns are referenced as though they were separate variables. While developing some of my functions, I’d wanted to introduce something similar. I often find that I have a single ... [Read more...]

IntroductionIt's been said that the ideal job is one you love enough to do for free but are good enough at that people will pay you for it. That if you do what you love no matter what others may say, and if you work at it hard enough, and ... [Read more...]

In my presentation to the Strata Santa Clara 2013 conference earlier this year, my goal was to give a succinct (under 20 minutes!) explanation of three terms that are two often used as mere buzzwords: predictive analytics, real time, and big data. You can download the slides for my presentation, Real-time Big ... [Read more...]

Continuing on the examples from the book Veterinary Epidemiologic Research, we look today at modelling count when the count of zeros may be higher or lower than expected from a Poisson or negative binomial distribution. When there’s an excess of zero counts, you can fit either a zero-inflated model ... [Read more...]

The reorder function, in R 3.0.0, is behaving strangely (or I’m really not understanding something).  Take the following simple data frame: df = data.frame(a1 = c(4,1,1,3,2,4,2), a2 = c(“h”,”j”,”j”,”e”,”c”,”h”,”c”)) I expect that if I call the reorder function on the … Continue reading → [Read more...]

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It occurred to us recently that we don’t have any articles about Bayesian approaches to statistics here. I’m not going to get into the “Bayesian versus Frequentist” war; in my opinion, which style of approach to use is less about philosophy, and more about figuring out the best ... [Read more...]

Survey research deals with the problem of question wording by always asking the same question.  Thus, the Gallup Daily Tracking is filled with examples of moving averages for the exact same question asked precisely the same way every day. &nb... [Read more...]