Here is a comparison of lmer vs Stan output on a mildly complicated dataset from a psychology expt. (Kliegl et al 2011). The data are here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/pwuz1g7rtwy17p1/KWDYZ_test.rda.The data and paper available from: http://openscience.u... [Read more...]

A new version 0.3 of HistogramTools is now on CRAN. HistogramTools provides a number of methods for manipulating histograms, measuring the distance between histograms, calculating the information loss due to binning aggregate data sets, and other tool... [Read more...]

This week, I spend some time at the Workshop on Nonparametric Curve Smoothing conference at Concordia. Yesterday afternoon, Noël Veraverbeke show an interesting graph, to illustrate conditional copulas (and the derivation of conditional dependence measures, such as Kendall’s tau, or Spearman’s rho). A long time ago, in ... [Read more...]

What is risk parity (RP)? Simply put, it is a method of allocating equal risk shares to each asset in the portfolio. In more traditional allocation schemes, equity, being the riskiest asset (and hence providing the highest reward), has typically received the lion’s share. With RP, equalization of risk ... [Read more...]

This is a data only package containing all injury intent deaths (accidents, suicides, homicides, legal interventions, and deaths of unspecified intent) registered by the SSA/INEGI from 2004 to 2012. The data source for the database is the INEGI. In a... [Read more...]

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In this post, I will explain you about Cluster Analysis, The process of grouping objects/individuals together in such a way that objects/individuals in one group are more similar than objects/individuals in other groups. For example, from a ticket booking engine database identifying clients with similar booking activities ... [Read more...]

Last week's Cologne R user group meeting was the best attended so far. Well, we had a great line up indeed. Matt Dowle came over from London to give an introduction to the data.table package. He was joined by his collaborator Arun Srinivasan, who is based in Cologne. Their ... [Read more...]

After some time brewing on my machines, I’m happy to have released a new version of my permute package for R. This release took quite a while to polish and get right as there was a lot of back-and-forth between vegan and permute as I tried to get the ... [Read more...]

This week I’ve been feeling tired of excessive fanaticism (or zealotry) of open source and R in general. I do use a fair amount of OSS and pushed for the adoption of R in our courses; in fact I do think OSS is a good thingTM. I do not ... [Read more...]

Yesterday I said that I'd carry on with the monte carlo simulation of insurance data. I'm not going to as I don't think I've got enough time and mental energy to do it justice. I'm sure tens of people are disappointed to learn this. Instead, I'm going to have a ... [Read more...]

There is something that I love about mathematics: sometimes, you discover – by chance – a law. It has always been there, it might have been well known by some people (specialized in some given field), but you did not know it. And then, you discover it, and you start wondering how ... [Read more...]

Naming Rules in R How are objects allowed to be named in R? As it turns out, this is a very different question from how should objects be named. This isn't about style conventions, camelCase, dots.verus_underscores, or anything like that; this is about what is strictly possible. I ... [Read more...]

Now that the limited availability period is complete, we're pleased to announce that Revolution R Enterprise 7 is now generally available for all customers on the following platforms (see the detailed list of supported platforms): Windows and Red Hat Enterprise Linux workstations Windows, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SUSE Linux servers ... [Read more...]

Creating interactive graphs and charts is a great way to show a lot of information in a small space without cluttering up the drawing canvas. This post describes the use of Ramnath Vaidyanathan’s rCharts package with Thomas Lumley’s survey package to create a simple bar chart with design-corrected ... [Read more...]

(Guest post by Matt Sundquist on a lovely new service which is pro-actively supporting an API for R) The Plotly R graphing library  allows you to create and share interactive, publication-quality plots in your browser. Plotly is also built for …Read more » [Read more...]

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A new version 0.3.2 of RProtoBuf, is now on CRAN. RProtoBuf provides GNU R bindings for the Google Protobuf data encoding library used and released by Google. As for the last few releases, Murray took charge of most changes. The NEWS file entry f... [Read more...]

As part of my course in bayesian data analysis, I have put up some common linear mixed models that we fit in psycholinguistics. These are written in JAGS and Stan. Comments and suggestions for improvement are most welcome.Code: http://www.ling.uni-pots... [Read more...]