I’m officially a Kaggler. Cut to the good ol’ Titanic challenge. Ol’ is right – It’s been running since 2012 and ends in 3 months! I showed up late to the party. Oh well, I guess it’s full steam ahead from now on. The competition  ‘Machine Learning from Disaster’ asks ...

Dataset here. We are going to perform a linear mixed effects analysis of the relationship between height and treatment of trees, as studied over a period of time. Begin by reading in the data and making sure that the variables have the appropriate datatype. tree

Dataset: state.x77 – Standard built-in dataset with 50 rows and 8 columns giving the following statistics in the respective columns. Population: population estimate as of July 1, 1975 Income: per capita income (1974) Illiteracy: illiteracy (1970, percent of population) Life Exp: life expectancy in years (1969–71) Murder: murder and non-negligent manslaughter rate per 100,000 population (1976) HS Grad: percent ...