August 2015

Two Presentations about Joint Models

August 9, 2015 | Dimitris Rizopoulos

Packages JM and JMbayes @ JSM2015This year JSM features an interesting invited session about fitting joint models in different software packages -- if you're interested drop by... Here are my slides in which I give a short intro in packages JM and JMba... [Read more...]

Two Presentations about Joint Models

August 9, 2015 | Dimitris Rizopoulos

Packages JM and JMbayes @ JSM2015This year JSM features an interesting invited session about fitting joint models in different software packages -- if you're interested drop by... Here are my slides in which I give a short intro in packages JM and JMba... [Read more...]

R packages for undergraduate stat ed

August 9, 2015 | mine

The other day on the isostat mailing list Doug Andrews asked the following question: Which R packages do you consider the most helpful and essential for undergrad stat ed? I ask in great part because it would help my local … Continue reading → [Read more...]

Predicting Titanic deaths on Kaggle III: Bagging

August 9, 2015 | Wingfeet

This is the third post on prediction the deaths. The first one used randomforest, the second boosting (gbm). The aim of the third post was to use bagging. In contrast to the former posts I abandoned dplyr in this post. It gave some now you see now you don't errors.... [Read more...]

Slides from my JSM 2015 talk on dendextend

August 8, 2015 | Tal Galili

If you happen to be at the JSM 2015 conference this week, then this Monday, at 2pm, I will give a talk on the dendextend R package  (in the session “Advances in Graphical Frameworks and Methods Part 1“) – feel free to drop by and say hi. Here are my slides for the ... [Read more...]

Hey Fitbit, my data belong to me!

August 8, 2015 | inkhorn82

When you go on Fitbit’s website and want to download your own Fitbit data, you will find your way to their Data Export utility on their settings page. Once you get there, you are greeted with what looks like a … Continue reading →
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delayed in Seattle

August 8, 2015 | xi'an

Here are the slides of my talk on delayed acceptance I present this afternoon at JSM 2015, in Seattle, in the Bayesian Computation I (2pm, room CC-4C1) and II (4pm, room CC-3A) sessions Omiros Papaspiliopoulos and myself put together (sponsored by IMS and ISBA):Filed under: Books, R, Statistics, ... [Read more...]

cricketr adapts to the Twenty20 International!

August 8, 2015 | Tinniam V Ganesh

Introduction This should be last in the series of posts based on my R package cricketr. That is, unless some bright idea comes trotting along and light bulbs go on around my head. In this post cricketr adapts to the Twenty20 International format. Now cricketr can handle stats from all 3 ...
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Parametric bootstrap

August 7, 2015 | Andrés Gutiérrez

Assume we want to know the mean square error (MSE) of the sample median as a estimator of a population mean under normality. As you know, this is not a trivial problem. We may take advantage of the Bootstrap method and solve it by means of simulation.... [Read more...]

A Decade of Premier League Football

August 7, 2015 | Jo-fai Chow

The English Premier League is BACK!Before we get over-excited, let's have a look at the past. Here is a shiny app to visualise some stats from last ten seasons. It is my first attempt at developing data-driven sports stories with R, Shiny and Shiny Dashboard. Those stories ain't new, ... [Read more...]

A Decade of Premier League Football

August 7, 2015 | Jo-fai Chow

The English Premier League is BACK!Before we get over-excited, let's have a look at the past. Here is a shiny app to visualise some stats from last ten seasons. It is my first attempt at developing data-driven sports stories with R, Shiny and Shiny Das... [Read more...]

Argentine general election, 2015

August 7, 2015 | Daniel Marcelino

The 2015 Argentine's presidential election to be held next October 25th is approaching and the dispute begun to appear more clearly since the major parties announced their potential candidates last June. This Sunday, the political parties are holding their primaries for the upcoming presidential election. As in US, in Argentine the ...
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New ‘R Talk’ podcast with news from R Consortium

August 7, 2015 | David Smith

There's a new podcast in town, and it's focused on R. Four members of the R community (Oliver Keyes, Wikimedia Foundation; Jasmine Dumas. DePaul University; Ted Hart, Silcon Valley "fruit vendor"; and Mikhail Popov, Wikimedia Foundation) have banded together to produce R Talk, a podcast about "the R Programming language, ... [Read more...]

The New and Improved R Shodan Package

August 7, 2015 | Bob Rudis (@hrbrmstr)

For those not involved with all things “cyber”, let me start with a description of what Shodan is (though visiting the site is probably the best introduction to what secrets it holds). Shodan is—at it’s core—a search engine. Unlike Google, Shodan indexes what I’ll call “cyber” ... [Read more...]

The New and Improved R Shodan Package

August 7, 2015 | Bob Rudis (@hrbrmstr)

For those not involved with all things “cyber”, let me start with a description of what Shodan is (though visiting the site is probably the best introduction to what secrets it holds). Shodan is—at it’s core—a search engine. Unlike Google, Shodan indexes what I’ll call “cyber” ... [Read more...]

Adding a CRAN Search Engine to Chrome

August 7, 2015 | hrbrmstr

Riffing off of the previous post, here’s a way to quickly search CRAN (the @RStudio flavor) from the Chrome search bar. Paste chrome://settings/searchEngines into your location bar and hit return/enter Scroll down until the input boxes show, enabling you to add a search engine For “Add ... [Read more...]
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