# R

Blogs on the R software.

## R #1 by Wide Margin in Latest KDnuggets Poll

May 27, 2015
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The results of the latest KDnuggets Poll on software for Analytics, Big Data and Data Mining are out, and R has moved into the #1 position by a wide margin. I’ve updated the Surveys of Use section of The Popularity of Data … Continue reading →

May 26, 2015
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Another trip in the métro today (to work with Pierre Jacob and Lawrence Murray in a Paris Anticafé!, as the University was closed) led me to infer—warning!, this is not the exact distribution!—the distribution of x, namely since a path x of length l(x) will corresponds to N draws if N-l(x) is an even integer […]

## Communicating Risk at the Bay Area R User Group

May 26, 2015
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I will be speaking at the Bay Area User Group meeting tonight about Communicating Risk. Anthony Goldbloom from Kaggle and Karim Chine from ElasticR will be there as well. The meeting will be at Microsoft in Mountain View.Later this week I will give a s...

## R and Data Mining workshop at Deakin University

May 25, 2015
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I will run a workshop on R and Data Mining for students in the Master of Business Analytics course at Deakin University in Melbourne on Thursday 28 May. The workshop will cover: – Introduction to Data Mining with R and … Continue reading →

## Paper Helicopter experiment, part II

May 25, 2015
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Last week I created a JAGS model combining data from two paper helicopter datasets. This week, I will use the model to find the longest flying one.PredictingThe JAGS/RJAGS system has no predict() function that I know of. What I therefore did is adapt t...

## another viral math puzzle

May 24, 2015
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After the Singapore Maths Olympiad birthday problem that went viral, here is a Vietnamese primary school puzzle that made the frontline in The Guardian. The question is: Fill the empty slots with all integers from 1 to 9 for the equality to hold. In other words, find a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,i such that a+13xb:c+d+12xe–f-11+gxh:i-10=66. With presumably the operation […]

May 24, 2015
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Executive summary Surprisingly good. And it’s not like my expectations were especially low. Structure There are 20 chapters.  I mostly like the chapters and their order. Hadley breaks the 20 chapters into 4 parts.  He’s wrong.  Figure 1 illustrates the correct way to formulate parts. Figure 1: Chapters and Parts of Advanced R.    Introductory R There […] The post Review of ‘Advanced R’ by Hadley Wickham appeared first on Burns Statistics.

## Parametric Inference: Likelihood Ratio Test Problem 2

May 23, 2015
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More on Likelihood Ratio Test, the following problem is originally from Casella and Berger (2001), exercise 8.12.ProblemFor samples of size $n=1,4,16,64,100$ from a normal population with mean $\mu$ and known variance $\sigma^2$, plot the power functio...

## Simulation-based power analysis using proportional odds logistic regression

May 22, 2015
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Consider planning a clinicial trial where patients are randomized in permuted blocks of size four to either a 'control' or 'treatment' group. The outcome is measured on an 11-point ordinal scale (e.g., the numerical rating scale for pain). It may be reasonable to evaluate the results of this trial using a proportional odds cumulative logit […]

## R Now Contains 150 Times as Many Commands as SAS

May 22, 2015
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by Bob Muenchen In my ongoing quest to analyze the world of analytics, I’ve updated the Growth in Capability section of The Popularity of Data Analysis Software. To save you the trouble of foraging through that tome, I’ve pasted it below. … Continue reading →