Conrad released a bug fix version 3.920.3 for his Armadillo library. So I prepared a new release 0.3.920.3 of RcppArmadillo which is nor on on CRAN and also already in Debian. Note that we skipped interim version .2 which addressed an Atlas linking i... [Read more...]

Software requirements have been published on the course page: http://torinor.net/events-2/sweave-course/ Participants are encouraged to come and practice with their own laptop; please make sure to meet software requirements. … Continue reading → [Read more...]

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Penalizing P Values Ioannidis' paper suggesting that most published results in medical research are not true is now high profile enough that even my dad, an artist who wouldn't know a test statistic if it hit him in the face, knows about it. It has even shown up recently in ... [Read more...]

Perrakis, Ntzoufras, and Tsionas just arXived a paper on marginal likelihood (evidence) approximation (with the above title). The idea behind the paper is to base importance sampling for the evidence on simulations from the product of the (block) marginal posterior distributions. Those simulations can be directly derived from an MCMC ... [Read more...]

Hello everybody! Today I found something very cool: There is a R package for mining Facebook. For Twitter there are different, but this is the first one really working well with Facebook. So I wanted to test it and was amazed about how easy it works. Setup: The first thing ... [Read more...]

If you learned statistics using Stata software but have an interest in learning the R language, it's worth checking out R~Stata: Notes on Exporing Data by Princeton's Oscar Torres-Reyna. D-Lab's Laura Nelson provides an overview, but in short it's a collection of 30 PDF slides that introduces R for Stata ... [Read more...]

Recently, a fishR user asked me the following (modified) question: I have successfully fit the typical von Bertalanffy growth model to all of my fish. However, when I subset the data by sex and attempt to fit the model separately … Continue reading → [Read more...]

Since I joined SAP around 2 years ago, I simply stopped using ABAP…even when I use it for almost 11 years when I was a consultant…A week ago, I was thinking about writing a new blog…something nice…some hacky…something that would allow me to just rest and don’... [Read more...]

Please share: Manning Deal of the Day November 19: Half off Practical Data Science with R. Use code dotd1119au at www.manning.com/zumel/. Related posts: Data Science, Machine Learning, and Statistics: what is in a name? Data science project planning S... [Read more...]

I have written a very basic survey tool built entirely in the Shiny package of R.  I hope the tool is useful.  Modifying the survey for your own purposes is trivially easy (I hope).I have not commented my code so it is pretty messy right now.... [Read more...]

Solr is the most popular, fast and reliable open source enterprise search platform from the Apache Luene project.  Among many other features, we love its powerful full-text search, hit highlighting, faceted search, and near real-time indexing. &nb... [Read more...]

We are building a taxonomic toolbelt for R called taxize - which gives you programmatic access to many sources of taxonomic data on the web. We just pushed a new version to CRAN (v0.1.5) with a lot of changes (see here for a rundown). Here are a few highlights of ... [Read more...]

Here is a little Bayesian Network to predict the claims for two different types of drivers over the next year, see also example 16.16 in [1]. Let's assume there are good and bad drivers. The probabilities that a good driver will have 0, 1 or 2 claims in any given year are set to 70%, 20% and 10%, ... [Read more...]

This is a short post for my students in the CUNY MS Data Analytics program on sketching curves in R. …Continue reading » [Read more...]

Iterators — object-oriented programming constructs that act as a pointer in an ordered sequence — are familiar to programmers of languages like Python, but are not a standard part of the R language. Nonetheless, by installing the iterators package (an open-source contribution by Revolution Analytics) you can create and manipulate iterator objects ... [Read more...]

The International Disaster Database, EM-DAT from the Center for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED, Belgium) is often used as a reference for losses on human life and property resulting from natural and man-made disasters. This databa... [Read more...]

Over the past two years, my scientific computing toolbox been steadily homogenizing. Around 2010 or 2011, my toolbox looked something like this: Ruby for text processing and miscellaneous scripting; Ruby on Rails/JavaScript for web development; Python/Numpy (mostly) and MATLAB (occasionally) for numerical computing; MATLAB for neuroimaging data analysis; R for ... [Read more...]

Most of the time, when we introduce binomial models, such as the logistic or probit models, we discuss only Bernoulli variables, . This year (actually also the year before), I discuss extensions to multinomial regressions, where  is a function on some simplex. The multinomial logistic model was mention here. The idea ... [Read more...]

Jim Silverton wrote to the Allstat mailing list recently: “Hi, Anyone up for a challenge? Suppose we have [4] random variables that are random points on the surface of a sphere. What is the probability that the tetrahedron made by joining these … Continue reading → [Read more...]