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Amazon AWS Summit 2013
(This article was first published on Statistical Research » R, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) I was fortunate enough to have been able to attend the Amazon AWS Summit in NYC and to listen to...
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Free e-Copy of Bayesian Computation with R (Use R)
(This article was first published on Statistical Research » R, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) Editors note: It looks like Amazon has completely removed the Kindle version of the book from their...
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A Brief Tour of the Trees and Forests
(This article was first published on Statistical Research » R, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) Tree methods such as CART (classification and regression trees) can be used as alternatives to...
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Will Mu Go Out With Median
(This article was first published on Statistical Research » R, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) True story (no really, this did actually happen). While in grad school one of the other teaching...
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Hey, I Just did a Significance Test!
(This article was first published on Statistical Research » R, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) I’ve seen it happens quite often. The sig test. Somebody simply needs to know the p-value and that...
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Latent Class Modeling Election Data
(This article was first published on Statistical Research » R, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) Latent class analysis is a useful tool that is used to identify groups within multivariate...
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Software Packages for Graphs and Charts
(This article was first published on Statistical Research » R, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) Graphs can be an important feature of analysis. A graph that has been well designed and put...
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Using R to Produce Scalable Vector Graphics for the Web
(This article was first published on Statistical Research » R, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) Statistical software is normally used during the analysis stage of a project and a cleaned up...
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Some Common Approaches for Analyzing Likert Scales and Other Categorical Data
(This article was first published on Statistical Research » R, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) Analyzing Likert scale responses really comes down to what you want to accomplish (e.g. Are you...
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Imputing Missing Data With Expectation – Maximization
(This article was first published on Statistical Research » R, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) It can be fairly common to find missing values in a dataset. Having only a few missing values isn’t...
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JSM 2013 – Monday
(This article was first published on Statistical Research » R, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) I am currently attending the 2013 Joint Statistical Meeting in Montreal. I will try to share a few...
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JSM 2013 – Tuesday
(This article was first published on Statistical Research » R, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) The Joint Statistical Meeting in Montreal has proven to be very good. Here are a few highlight...
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(This article was first published on Statistical Research » R, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) I was able to attend a continuing education short course workshops at the JSM conference that...
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Data Scientists and Statisticians: Can’t We All Just Get Along
(This article was first published on Statistical Research » R, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) It seems that the title “data science” has taken the world by storm. It’s a title that conjures up...
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When Discussing Confidence Level With Others…
(This article was first published on Statistical Research » R, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) This post spawned from a discussion I had the other day. Confidence intervals are notoriously a...
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Passing-Bablok Regression: R code for SAS users
(This article was first published on Statistical Research » R, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) While at the Joint Statistical Meeting a few weeks ago I was talking to a friend about various...
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The Beta Prior, Likelihood, and Posterior
(This article was first published on Statistical Research » R, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) The Beta distribution (and more generally the Dirichlet) are probably my favorite distributions....
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Probability of Avoiding a Run-off in the NYC 2013 Democratic Primary Election
(This article was first published on Statistical Research » R, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) The New York City mayoral Democratic primary election is taking place this coming Tuesday (Sep....
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The Eve of the NYC Democratic Mayoral Primary Election
(This article was first published on Statistical Research » R, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) It is the eve of the New York City Democratic mayoral primary election. This is a simple follow-up...
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A Monty Simulation
(This article was first published on Statistical Research » R, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) I was listening to Science Friday from Sep 6th. and one of the discussions by Ira Flatow was on the...
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