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‘The Libertarian Republic’ author refers to Obamacare ‘spike’ in medical...
By BioStatMatt (This article was originally published at BioStatMatt » statistics, and syndicated at StatsBlogs.) I don’t usually read ‘The Libertarian Republic’, but this article was shared by a...
View ArticleR CMD INSTALL with symlink to R
By strictlystat Problems with R CMD INSTALL I was trying to install a package (ANTsR) by running R CMD INSTALL as normal on the cloned github repository on a particular cluster. I kept getting errors...
View ArticleFeature Selection with caret’s Genetic Algorithm Option
By Joseph Rickert by Joseph Rickert If there is anything that experienced machine learning practitioners are likely to agree on, it would be the importance of careful and thoughtful feature...
View ArticleFeature Selection with caret’s Genetic Algorithm Option
By Joseph Rickert by Joseph Rickert If there is anything that experienced machine learning practitioners are likely to agree on, it would be the importance of careful and thoughtful feature...
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Estimating the mean and standard deviation from the median and the range
By Christos Argyropoulos While preparing the data for a meta-analysis, I run into the problem that a few of my sources did not report the outcome of interest as means and standard deviations, but...
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Hack the Proton. A data-crunching game from the Beta and Bit series
By Przemyslaw.Biecek I’ve prepared a short console-based data-driven R game named ,,The Proton Game”. The goal of a player is to infiltrate Slawomir Pietraszko’s account on a Proton server. To do this,...
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RcppCCTZ 0.0.2 — now with Solaris support
By Thinking inside the box Following on yesterday’s announcement of RcppCCTZ, what is the only thing better than another date, time, or timezones library package? One that works on Solaris too Bradley...
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Setting up an Azure Resource Manager virtual machine with RStudio
By Andrie de Vries by Andrie de Vries I am preparing for a demonstration of functionality of R at a conference next week. For maximum impact, I wanted to use a fast virtual machine in Azure. It is...
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RQuantLib 0.4.2: Now with intra-day times
By Thinking inside the box A new minor release of RQuantLib was released onto CRAN and into Debian. It takes advantages of some changes from last week’s QuantLib release 1.7. Particularly noteworthy is...
View ArticleBecause it’s Friday: Filming a trip to the moon
By David Smith It’s hard to believe that it’s more than 46 years since humans first landed on the moon. If the Apollo 11 mission were conducted today, video cameras would surely have documented every...
View ArticleMicrosoft’s new Data Science Virtual Machine
By David Smith Earlier this week, Andrie showed you how to set up and provision your own virtual machine (VM) to run R and RStudio in Azure. Another option is to use the new Microsoft Data Science...
View ArticleMicrosoft’s new Data Science Virtual Machine
By David Smith Earlier this week, Andrie showed you how to set up and provision your own virtual machine (VM) to run R and RStudio in Azure. Another option is to use the new Microsoft Data Science...
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RcppArmadillo 0.6.200.3.0
By Thinking inside the box The regular monthly upstream Armadillo update gave us the second update in the 6.* series: version 6.300.2. This was rolled into RcppArmadillo 0.6.300.2 which was once again...
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What can global temperature data tell us?
By Radford Neal Debates about anthropogenic climate change often centre around data on changes in global temperatures over the last few decades. There are good scientific reasons to look at this data,...
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Venezuela’s 2015 Parliamentary Elections
By Daniel (This article was originally published at Daniel, and syndicated at StatsBlogs.) Next Sunday Venezuelans are heading to the polls once again with international concerns about the clearness of...
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Venezuelan Parliamentary Election: What do the Polls Say?
By Daniel (This article was originally published at Daniel, and syndicated at StatsBlogs.) There is not a huge population of opinion polls covering this parliamentary election in Venezuela, but all...
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Venezuelan Parliamentary Election: What do the Polls Say?
By Daniel (This article was originally published at Daniel, and syndicated at StatsBlogs.) There is not a huge population of opinion polls covering this parliamentary election in Venezuela, but all...
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Venezuela’s 2015 Parliamentary Elections
By Daniel (This article was originally published at Daniel, and syndicated at StatsBlogs.) Next Sunday Venezuelans are heading to the polls once again with international concerns about the clearness of...
View ArticleTimeline of Statistics
By David Smith http://www.statslife.org.uk/history-of-stats-science/1190-the-timeline-of-statistics …read more Source:: http://revolutionanalytics.com
View ArticleWrite unit tests!
By Karl Broman (This article was originally published at The stupidest thing… » R, and syndicated at StatsBlogs.) Since 2000, I’ve been working on R/qtl, an R package for mapping the genetic loci...
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