making the next meeting more productive
One of the students’ requests I almost invariably reject is code debugging (and they are warned about it from the start). Here is an illustration why, with an R code...continue reading.
Category: Rstat
See BlueSky Statistics GUI for R at JSM 2023
Are attending this year’s Joint Statistical Meetings in Toronto? If so, stop by booth 404 to see the latest features of BlueSky Statistics. A menu-based graphical user interface for the...continue reading.
Price’s Protein Puzzle: 2023 update
One of the joys (?) of having been online for…quite some time now…is watching topics reappear every few years or so. So what’s new? In terms of English word matches:...continue reading.
The “curse of the bye” revisited
A while ago we looked at Geelong and the curse of the bye. And since the AFL media have outdone themselves this year with “curse of the bye” articles: see...continue reading.
Miami-Dade County Public Employee Salary Research – An Analysis in R, Python, and Julia
This analysis was co-authored by data scientists, Scott Fisher and Douglas Davila-Pestana. Mr. Fisher developed the Python code for the […] The post Miami-Dade County Public Employee Salary Research –...continue reading.
statistical modeling with R [book review]
Statistical Modeling with R (A dual frequentist and Bayesian approach for life scientists) is a recent book written by Pablo Inchausti, from Uruguay. In a highly personal and congenial style...continue reading.
Update to Data Science Software Popularity
I’ve updated The Popularity of Data Science Software‘s market share estimates based on scholarly articles. I posted it below, so you don’t have to sift through the main article to...continue reading.
Model-Based Clustering, Classification, and Density Estimation Using mclust in R [not a book review]
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simulated annealing and logistic regression to the max
A Riddler puzzle on the three binary and sequential questions one should ask three players hiding their respective U(0,1) realisation, U, V, and W, to best guess which player holds...continue reading.
Rounding in R: Common Data Wrangling Frustrations and Workarounds in R, Julia, and Python
If you’ve played with data for long enough, you’re sure to run into some popular dead-ends. There are many of these, from misspelled location names and addresses to placeholder values...continue reading.
StanCon 2023 [20-23 July 2023]
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partial rankings and aggregate ranks
When interviewing impressive applicants from a stunning variety of places and background for fellows in our Data Science for Social Good program (in Warwick and Kaiserslautern) this summer, we came...continue reading.
JAGS Workshop [10-14 July 2023]
Hey, JAGS users and would-be users, be warned that registration is now open for the annual JAGS workshop on probabilistic modelling for cognitive science. The tenth instalment of this workshop...continue reading.
alone in Napoli
A combinatorics puzzle from The Riddler about a Napoli solitaire where 4 x 10 cards numbered from 1 to 10 are shuffled and the game is lost when a number...continue reading.
How to Win a Game (or More) of Super Six
We use simulation to analyse the family dicing game “Super Six”. In particular we show that the person starting the game has a very high chance of winning the game....continue reading.
The Effect [book review]
While it sounds like the title of a science-fiction catastrophe novel or of a (of course) convoluted nouveau roman, this book by Nick Huntington-Klein is a massive initiation to econometrics...continue reading.
WebR IS HERE!
WebR 0.1.0 was released! I had been git-stalking George (the absolute genius who we all must thank for this) for a while and noticed the GH org and repos being...continue reading.
latest math stats exam
As I finished grading our undergrad math stats exam (in Paris Dauphine) over the weekend, which was very straightforward this year, the more because most questions had already been asked...continue reading.
Has your knowledge stopped updating?
Some years ago I read an article – I forget where – describing how our general knowledge often becomes frozen in time. Asked to name the tallest building in the...continue reading.
The Music of the Spheres
He himself could hear the harmony of the Universe, and understood the music of the spheres, and the stars which move in concert with them, and which we cannot hear...continue reading.
