Posts of the year

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Like last year, here are the most popular posts since last August:

  1. Home page 92,982
  2. In{s}a(ne)!! 6,803
  3. “simply start over and build something better” 5,834
  4. Julien on R shortcomings 2,373
  5. Parallel processing of independent Metropolis-Hastings algorithms 1,455
  6. Do we need an integrated Bayesian/likelihood inference? 1,361
  7. Coincidence in lotteries 1,256
  8. #2 blog for the statistics geek?! 863
  9. ABC model choice not to be trusted 814
  10. Sudoku via simulated annealing 706
  11. Bayes on the Beach 2010 [2] 704
  12. News about speeding R up 688
  13. Solution manual for Introducing Monte Carlo Methods with R 688
  14. R exam 617
  15. Bayesian p-values 607
  16. Monte Carlo Statistical Methods third edition 577
  17. Le Monde puzzle [49] 499
  18. The foundations of Statistics: a simulation-based approach 493
  19.  The mistborn trilogy 492
  20. Lack of confidence in ABC model choice 487
  21. Solution manual to Bayesian Core on-line 481
  22. Bayes’ Theorem 459
  23. Julian Besag 1945-2010 452
  24. Millenium 1 [movie] 448
  25. ABC lectures [finale] 436

No major surprise in this ranking: R related blogs keep the upper part, partly thanks to being syndicated on R-bloggers, partly thanks to the tribunes contributed by Ross Ihaka and Julien Cornebise, even though I am surprised a rather low-key Le Monde puzzle made it to the list (maybe because it became part of my latest R exam?). Controversial books reviews are great traffic generators, even though the review of The foundations of Statistics: a simulation-based approach was posted less than a month ago. At last, it is comforting to see two of our major research papers for the 2010-2011 period on the list: the Parallel processing of independent Metropolis-Hastings algorithms with Pierre and Murray, and the more controversial Lack of confidence in ABC model choice with Jean-Michel and Natesh (twice). The outlier in the list is undoubtedly Bayes on the Beach 2010 [2] which got undeserved traffic for pointing out to Surfers Paradise , a highly popular entry! On my side unscientific entries, Saunderson’s Mistborn and Larson’s Millenium, McCarthy’s Border trilogy missing the top list by three entries…


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