Summary: in this post, I implemenent an R function for computing \( P(\theta_1 __ \theta2) \), where \( \theta_1 \) and \( \theta_2 \) are beta-distributed random variables. This is useful for estimating the probability that one binomial proportion is greater than another. I am working on a project in which I need to compare two ... [Read more...]

For thise case, we can write Bayes formula as: The two components in the numerator are: The probability of the data given a \( \mu \) and \( \sigma \), also called the likelihood function: \( p(y|\mu,\sigma) \) The probability of a given \( \mu \) and \( \sigma \), before seeing any data; also called the ... [Read more...]

Unfortunately, there is a lot of data released in on the web in the form of PDF files. Scraping data out of PFDs is much harder than scraping from a web page; web pages have structure, in the form of HTML, that you can usually leverage to extract struc... [Read more...]

We’ve been shipping hundreds of packages as part of our Detox Me Action Kit project, and we wanted a way to track all of them without having to manually enter their tracking numbers on the UPS website. Through the UPS REST API and some VBA hacking, we were able ... [Read more...]

Scientists spend a lot of time “munging” data. Finding, cleaning, and managing datasets can take up the majority of the time it takes to complete an analysis. Tools that make the munging process easier can save scientists a lot of time. We are tackling a small part of this problem ... [Read more...]

Scientists spend a lot of time “munging” data. Finding, cleaning, and managing datasets can take up the majority of the time it takes to complete an analysis. Tools that make the munging process easier can save scientists a lot of time. We are tackling a small part of this problem ... [Read more...]

Data are censored when samples from one or both ends of a continuous distribution are cut off and assigned one value. Environmental chemical exposure datasets are often left-censored: instruments can detect levels of chemicals down to a limit, underneath which you can’t say for sure how much of the ... [Read more...]

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Setting axis limits in ggplot has behaviour that may be unexpected: any data that falls outside of the limits is ignored, instead of just being hidden. This means that if you are apply a statistic or calculation on the data, like plotting a box and whi... [Read more...]

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