Valuable Webinar in Parallel Computing in R
George Ostrouchov, one of R’s top parallel computing experts, will run a workshop on cluster parallel computing in R next week. BTW, even a multicore laptop is a “cluster,” so...continue reading.
Author: matloff
Base-R Is Alive and Well
As many readers of this blog know, I strongly believe that R learners should be taught base-R, not the tidyverse. Eventually the students may settle on using a mix of...continue reading.
Comments on the New R OOP System, R7
Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) is more than just a programming style; it’s a philosophy. R has offered various forms of OOP, starting with S3, then (among others) S4, reference classes, and...continue reading.
A Major Contribution to Learning R
Prominent statistician Frank Harrell has come out with a radically new R tutorial, rflow. The name is short for “R workflow,” but I call it “R in a box” –everything...continue reading.
Greatly Revised Edition of Tidyverse Skeptic
As a longtime R user and someone with a passionate interest in how people learn, I continue to be greatly concerned about the use of the Tidyverse in teaching noncoder...continue reading.
Issues in Differential Privacy
Differential privacy (DP) is an approach to maintaining the privacy of individual records in a database, while still allowing statistical analysis. It is now perceived as the go-to method in...continue reading.
What’s Not What in Differential Privacy
I take my title here from the “too clever by half” paper, “What’s Not What with Statistics” of many years ago. Or I just as appropriately could have borrowed the...continue reading.
The Notion of “Double Descent”
I tend to be blase’ about breathless claims of “new” methods and concepts in statistics and machine learning. Most are “variations on a theme.” However, the notion of double descent,...continue reading.
The Notion of “Double Descent”
I tend to be blase’ about breathless claims of “new” methods and concepts in statistics and machine learning. Most are “variations on a theme.” However, the notion of double descent,...continue reading.
Efron Updates breiman’s “two cultures” essay
The June 2020 issue of JASA features a highly insightful essay by Brad Efron, dean of the world’s statisticians. The article is accompanied by commentary by a number of statistical...continue reading.
Efron Updates breiman’s “two cultures” essay
The June 2020 issue of JASA features a highly insightful essay by Brad Efron, dean of the world’s statisticians. The article is accompanied by commentary by a number of statistical...continue reading.
New Book on Machine Learning
I’m nearing completion of writing my new book, The Art of Machine Learning: Algorithms+Data+R, to be published by the whimsically named No Starch Press. I’m making a rough, partial draft...continue reading.
New Book on Machine Learning
I’m nearing completion of writing my new book, The Art of Machine Learning: Algorithms+Data+R, to be published by the whimsically named No Starch Press. I’m making a rough, partial draft...continue reading.
FOCI: a new method for feature selection
It’s been a while since I’ve posted here, not for lack of material but just having too long a TO DO list. I’ve added some important features to my regtools...continue reading.
FOCI: a new method for feature selection
It’s been a while since I’ve posted here, not for lack of material but just having too long a TO DO list. I’ve added some important features to my regtools...continue reading.
“Clearing the Confusion” series
In recent weeks, I’ve posted three tutorials with Clearing the Confusion titles, all in my regtools GitHub repo. Topics have been unbalanced classification data; k-fold cross validation; and scaling in...continue reading.
“Clearing the Confusion” series
In recent weeks, I’ve posted three tutorials with Clearing the Confusion titles, all in my regtools GitHub repo. Topics have been unbalanced classification data; k-fold cross validation; and scaling in...continue reading.
R Journal July Issue
As the current Editor-in-Chief of the R Journal, I must apologize for the delay in getting the July issue online, due to technical and other matters. In the meantime, though,...continue reading.
R Journal July Issue
As the current Editor-in-Chief of the R Journal, I must apologize for the delay in getting the July issue online, due to technical and other matters. In the meantime, though,...continue reading.
New Version of regtools package
My updated version of my regtools package, tools for parametric and nonparametric regression, is now on CRAN, https://cran.r-project.org/package=regtools It has a number of new functions and datasets. Type vignette(‘regtools’) fo…continue reading.
