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Bootstrapping standard errors for difference-in-differences estimation with R
By Bruno Rodrigues I’m currently working on a paper (with my colleague Vincent Vergnat who is also a Phd candidate at BETA) where I want to estimate the causal impact of the birth of a child on hourly...
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Applied Statistical Theory: Quantile Regression
By atmathew This is part two of the ‘applied statistical theory’ series that will cover the bare essentials of various statistical techniques. As analysts, we need to know enough about what we’re doing...
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importance sampling with infinite variance
By xi’an “In this article it is shown that in a fairly general setting, a sample of size approximately exp(D(μ|ν)) is necessary and sufficient for accurate estimation by importance sampling.” Sourav...
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Graph from Sparse Adjacency Matrix
By Andrew Collier I spent a decent chunk of my morning trying to figure out how to construct a sparse adjacency matrix for use with graph.adjacency(). I’d have thought that this would be rather...
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The Lady Loves Statistics
By Mango Blogger By Paulin Shek Working at Mango is generally busy, fun, but also at times, quite surreal. Lunchtime conversation amongst the consultants can get quite animated, especially when Andy...
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Annotables: R data package for annotating/converting Gene IDs
By Stephen Turner I work with gene lists on a nearly daily basis. Lists of genes near ChIP-seq peaks, lists of genes closest to a GWAS hit, lists of differentially expressed genes or transcripts from...
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Szkolenie z analizy sieciowej
By Michał Summary in English: We are organizing a two-day workshop on network analysis in R. The dates are 2-3 of December, 2015. The workshop will be in Polish. For more information and registration...
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Let’s meet on SatRdays: the link between RUGs and conferences
By Gergely Daróczi I am always very happy to attend local R meetups and international R conferences, as these are great opportunities to meet other R users, developers, rock stars and friends from all...
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What it means to be a US Veteran Today
By Francis Smart Six easy graphs that tell a big story: 1. You represent a much small portion of the American people than veterans in the 1980s. 2. You currently have the highest risk of being...
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Blog Post at Pluralsight
By C Final post in the three part series is now up at Pluralsight. The series is geared towards business users so if you have some friends that you are encouraging to set aside their spreadsheets and...
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Correlation and Linear Regression
By Lionel Hertzog Before going into complex model building, looking at data relation is a sensible step to understand how your different variable interact together. Correlation look at trends shared...
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Linear model with time series random component
By Peter’s stats stuff – R For training purposes I wanted to illustrate the dangers of ignoring time series characteristics of the random part of a classical linear regression, and I came up with this...
View ArticleThe five habits of bad bioinformaticians
By biomickwatson When ever I see bad bioinformatics, a little bit of me dies inside, because I know there is ultimately no reason for it to have happened. As a community, bioinformaticians are...
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simmer 3.0.0 is on CRAN
By FishyOperations I’m very pleased to announce the first CRAN release of simmer. (https://cran.rstudio.com/web/packages/simmer/). This release has been realised thanks to the efforts made by Iñaki. To...
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Polar Circles
By aschinchon You cannot find peace by avoiding life (Virginia Woolf) Combining polar coordinates, RColorBrewer palettes, ggplot2 and a simple trigonometric function to define the width of the tiles is...
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Why Submitting Ideas To The R Consortium Is A Good Idea
By Mango Blogger By Steph Locke Announced in June 2015, the R Consortium aims to support the R ecosystem and community and help grow the adoption of R. To deliver on these aims, the R Consortium has an...
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Interactive Data Science with R in Apache Zeppelin Notebook
By emaasit Introduction The objective of this blog post is to help you get started with Apache Zeppelin notebook for your R data science requirements. Zeppelin is a web-based notebook that enables...
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Trading Autocorrelation?
By quintuitive Markets are very smart in absorbing and reflecting information. If you think otherwise, try making money by trading. If you are new to it, make sure you don’t bet the house. In other...
View ArticleRcpp 0.12.2: More refinements
By Thinking inside the box The second update in the 0.12.* series of Rcpp is now on the CRAN network for GNU R. As usual, I will also push a Debian package. This follows the 0.12.0 release from late...
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Using htmlwidgets with knitr and Jekyll
By Brendan Rocks >> R A few weeks ago I gave a talk at BARUG (and wrote a post) about blogging with the excellent knitr-jekyll repo. Yihui’s system is fantastic, but it does have one drawback:...
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