Profile Likelihood for New Jersey U.S. Senate Special Election
(This article was first published on Statistical Research » R, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) As it stands right now Cory Booker has a very good chance of winning the New Jersey Special U.S....
View ArticleWaiting in One Line or Multiple Lines
(This article was first published on Statistical Research » R, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) Whenever I go to the grocery store it always seems to be a lesson in statistics. I go get the...
View ArticleThe Uncertainty of Predictions
(This article was first published on Statistical Research » R, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) There are many kinds of intervals in statistics. To name a few of the common intervals: confidence...
View ArticleThat’s Smooth
(This article was first published on Statistical Research » R, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) I had someone ask me the other day how to take a scatterplot and draw something other than a...
View ArticleRandom Sequence of Heads and Tails: For R Users
(This article was first published on Statistical Research » R, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) Rick Wicklin on the SAS blog made a post today on how to tell if a sequence of coin flips were...
View ArticleBeta Distribution and the NJ U.S. Senate Election
(This article was first published on Statistical Research » R, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) The beta distribution is highly flexible distribution and applies to many situations and...
View ArticleTracking the 2013 Hurricane Season
(This article was first published on Statistical Research » R, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) With it being the end of hurricane season it’s only appropriate to do a brief summary of the...
View ArticleSpatial Clustering With Equal Sizes
(This article was first published on Statistical Research » R, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) This is a problem I have encountered many times where the goal is to take a sample of spatial...
View ArticleSome Options for Testing Tables
(This article was first published on Statistical Research » R, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) Contingency tables are a very good way to summarize discrete data. They are quite easy to...
View ArticleProbabilities and P-Values
(This article was first published on Statistical Research » R, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) P-values seem to be the bane of a statistician’s existence. I’ve seen situations where entire...
View ArticleConnecting TOAD For MySQL, MySQL Workbench, and R to Amazon AWS EC2 Using SSH...
(This article was first published on Statistical Research » R, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) I often use Amazon EC2 to store and retrieve data when I need either additional storage or higher...
View ArticleThe Birthday Simulation
(This article was first published on Statistical Research » R, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) Nothing novel or unique about this problem. This just extends the problem to measure the...
View ArticleRecent Articles
(This article was first published on Statistical Research » R, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) I have uploaded a few papers I have written and presented at some national conferences over the...
View ArticleR Code for Election Posterior Distribution From a Random Sample
(This article was first published on Statistical Research » R, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) I wrote a summary article a couple of years ago discussing some probability aspects of the 2012...
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