Updated Comparison of R Graphical User Interfaces
I have just updated my detailed reviews of Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) for R, so let’s compare them again. It’s not too difficult to rank them based on the number of...continue reading.
I have just updated my detailed reviews of Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) for R, so let’s compare them again. It’s not too difficult to rank them based on the number of...continue reading.
Abstract: We visualize children reference populations for height, weight and body mass index by plotting percentiles of the population as a function of age. Besides the epidemiological interest in these...continue reading.
A very classical (textbook) question on the Riddler on inferring the contents of an urn from an Hypergeometric experiment: You have an urn with N red and white balls, but...continue reading.
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Following a question on Stack Overflow trying to replicate a figure from the paper written by Alan Gelfand and Adrian Smith (1990) for The American Statistician, Bayesian sampling without tears,...continue reading.
A question from X validated had enough appeal for me to procrastinate about it for ½ an hour: what difference does it make [for simulation purposes] that a target density...continue reading.
A quick-and-dirty R resolution of a riddle from The Riddler, namely to find a Carmichael number of the form abcabc: library(numbers) for(i in 1:9) for(j in 0:9) for(k in 0:9){...continue reading.
A question on X validated about EM steps for a truncated Normal mixture led me to ponder whether or not a more ambitious completion [more ambitious than the standard component...continue reading.
The stability result that the ratio converges holds for a Harris π-null-recurrent Markov chain for all functions f,g in L¹(π) [Meyn & Tweedie, 1993, Theorem 17.3.2] is rather fascinating. However,...continue reading.
A monthly birthday problem from the Riddler: What was the probability that none of the 40 people had birthdays this month? What is the probability that there is at least...continue reading.
It seems like an age ago, but in fact it was only mid-January 2022 when this happened: The answers are yes and yes again. One excellent source of weather station...continue reading.
If you sit in the intersection of “likes Australian Rules football / finds sport statistics interesting / is on Twitter”, you’ve probably come across Swamp. One of his recent tweets...continue reading.
The Moonies are up on their mountain, the lunatics have taken over the asylum, waiting on the rapture (The Daily Mail, Radiohead) I have not write any post lately, maybe...continue reading.
The riddle from The Riddler of 19 Feb. is about the Bernoulli Galton-Watson process, where each individual in the population has one or zero descendant with equal probabilities: Starting with...continue reading.
This second edition of an introductory R book was sent to me by the author for a potential CHANCE book review. As there are many (many) books in the same...continue reading.
Our first speaker at London R is Giles Heywood who works as Chief Data Scientist at Seven Dials Fund Management…. The post Using R to Model UK Residential Property by...continue reading.
As I was waiting for my boat on a French Guiana beach last week, I thought back about a recent riddle from The Riddler where an item does a random...continue reading.
The R programming language packs a rich set of statistical functions. It makes it easy to do any kind of statistical test, including the analysis of variance. Today you’ll learn...continue reading.
An almost straightforward riddle from The Riddler involving a triple gambler’s ruin: Dawn competes against three players Alessandra, Berenike, and Chinue, with probabilities of winning one round ¾, ½, and...continue reading.
If you dive deep into inferential statistics, you’re likely to see an acronym ANOVA. It comes in many different flavors, such as one-way, two-way, multivariate, factorial, and so on. We’ll...continue reading.