Introduction In the previous post I outlined why I think Scala is a good language for statistical computing and data science. In this post I want to give a quick taste of Scala and the Breeze numerical library to whet the appetite of the uninitiated. This post certainly won’t provide enough material to get started […]
There can never be too many examples for transforming data with R. So, here is another example of reshaping a data.frame into a matrix.Here I have a data frame that shows incremental claim payments over time for different loss occurrence (origin) years...
The determinant of a matrix is a number associated with a square (nxn) matrix. The determinant can tell us if columns are linearly correlated, if a system has any nonzero solutions, and if a matrix is invertible. See the wikipedia entry for more detail...
Matrix manipulation in R are very useful in Linear Algebra. Below are lists of common yet important functions in dealing operations with matrices:Transpose - tMultiplication - %*%Determinant - detInverse - solve, or ginv of MASS libraryEigenvalues and ...
Data in R can be converted from one class to the other. The function is prefixed with as. then followed by the name of the data class that we wish to convert to. Data class in R are the following:numeric - as.numericvector - as.vectorcharacter - as.cha...
Matrix in R is formed using matrix, rbind, or cbind function. These functions have the following descriptions:matrix - used to transform a concatenated data into matrix form of compatible dimensions. rbind - short for row bind, that binds a conca...
A couple of days ago, we had a quick chat on Karl Broman‘s blog, about snakes and ladders (see http://kbroman.wordpress.com/…) with Karl and Corey (see http://bayesianbiologist.com/….), and the use of Markov Chain. I do believe that this application is truly awesome: the example is understandable by anyone, and computations (almost any kind, from what we’ve tried) are easy to perform. At the same time, some French students asked me specific details regarding…
R can perform the usual mathematical operations, below are the functions: Arithmetic + - addition - - subtraction * - multiplication / - division Trigonometry sin  ...
A colleague asked for help with randomly choosing a kid within a family. This is for a trial in which families are recruited at well-child visits, but in each family only one of the children having a well-child visit that day can be in the study. The...
I’ve been very quiet on-line in the last few months, due mainly to the fact that I’ve been writing a new undergraduate course on multivariate data analysis. Although there are many books and on-line notes on the general topic of multivariate statistics, I wanted to do something a little bit different from any text I … … Continue reading →
