# Posts Tagged ‘ applied statistics ’

## Text Mining

October 15, 2012
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When it comes down to it R does a really good job handling structured data like matrices and data frames. However, its ability to work with unstructured data is still a work in progress. It can and it does handle text mining but the documentation is incomplete and the capabilities still don’t compare to other

## Association Rule Learning and the Apriori Algorithm

September 26, 2012
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Association Rule Learning (also called Association Rule Mining) is a common technique used to find associations between many variables. It is often used by grocery stores, retailers, and anyone with a large transactional databases. It’s the same way that Target knows your pregnant or when you’re buying an item on Amazon.com they know what else you want

## Data Frames and Transactions

September 24, 2012
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Transactions are a very useful tool when dealing with data mining.  It provides a way to mine itemsets or rules on datasets. In R the data must be in transactions form.  If the data is only available in a data.frame then to create (or coerce) the data frame to transaction the researcher may use the

## Power Analysis and the Probability of Errors

September 22, 2012
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$Power Analysis and the Probability of Errors$

Power analysis is a very useful tool to estimate the statistical power from a study. It effectively allows a researcher to determine the needed sample size in order to obtained the required statistical power. Clients often ask (and rightfully so) what the sample size should be for a proposed project. Sample sizes end up being

## N-Way ANOVA

September 15, 2012
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N-Way ANOVA example Two-way analysis of variance is where the rubber hits the road, so to speak. This extends the concepts of ANOVA with only one factor to two factors. When there are two factors this means that there can be an interaction between the two factors that should be tested. As one might expect

## One-Way ANOVA

September 11, 2012
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One-Way ANOVA Analysis of variance is a tool used for a variety of purposes. Applications range from a common one-way ANOVA, to experimental blocking, to more complex nested designs. This first ANOVA example provides the necessary tools to analyze data using this technique. This example will show a basic one-way ANOVA. I will save the

## Using R to connect to a SQL Server and MySQL Database using MS Windows

September 8, 2012
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Connecting to MySQL and Microsoft SQL Server Connecting to a MySQL database or MS SQL Server from the R environment can be extremely useful.  It allows a researcher direct access to the data without have to first export it from a database and then import it from a csv file or entering it directly into

## Kendall’s Tau

September 5, 2012
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Kendall’s Tau This is an example of Kendall’s Tau rank correlation.  This is similar to Spearman’s Rho in that it is a non-parametric measure of correlation on ranks.  It is an appropriate measure for ordinal data and is fairly straight forward when there are no ties in the ranks. When ties do exist then variations

## Spearman’s Rho

August 30, 2012
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Spearman’s Rho Rank Correlation There are generally three types of correlation that a researcher may encounter: Pearson’s r, Kendall’s Tau, and Spearman’s Rho.  They each have their own uses and applications depending on the da...

## Book Review – Modern Applied Statistics with S by W. N. Venables and B. D. Ripley (Springer 2003)

May 9, 2010
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Order this book from Amazon Modern Applied Statistics with S (Fourth Edition) is one of the oldest and most popular books on Applied Statistics using R and S-plus. A large number of topics in Applied Statistics are covered in this book and it is certainly not for the faint hearted. A sound knowledge of

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