# Posts Tagged ‘ R ’

## Large matrices in SAS/IML 14.1

July 31, 2015
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Last week, SAS released the 14.1 version of its analytics products, which are shipped as part of the third maintenance release of 9.4. If you run SAS/IML programs from a 64-bit Windows PC, you might be interested to know that you can now create matrices with about 231 ≈ 2 […] The post Large matrices in SAS/IML 14.1 appeared first on The DO Loop.

## I loved this %>% crosstable

July 28, 2015
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This is a public tank you for @heatherturner's contribution. Now the SciencesPo's crosstable can work in a chain (%>%) fashion; useful for using along with other packages that have integrated the magrittr operator. > candidatos %>% + filter(desc_cargo == 'DEPUTADO ESTADUAL'| desc_cargo =='DEPUTADO DISTRITAL' | desc_cargo =='DEPUTADO FEDERAL' | desc_cargo =='VEREADOR' | desc_cargo =='SENADOR') %>% […]

## Notes from the 3rd R in Insurance Conference

July 28, 2015
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Photo: Arthur CharpentierThe R in Insurance conference in Amsterdam was a sold out success! Congratulations to the organising committee at the University of Amsterdam, and many thanks to our sponsors:Milliman, RStudio, CYBAEA, Deloitte, a.s.r., Triple ...

## Egyptian fractions [Le Monde puzzle #922]

July 27, 2015
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For its summer edition, Le Monde mathematical puzzle switched to a lighter version with immediate solution. This #922 considers Egyptian fractions which only have distinct denominators (meaning the numerator is always 1) and can be summed. This means 3/4 is represented as ½+¼. Each denominator only appears once. As I discovered when looking on line, […]

## Efficient accumulation in R

July 27, 2015
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R has a number of very good packages for manipulating and aggregating data (plyr, sqldf, ScaleR, data.table, and more), but when it comes to accumulating results the beginning R user is often at sea. The R execution model is a bit exotic so many R users are very uncertain which methods of accumulating results are … Continue reading Efficient accumulation in R →

## Tiny Data, Approximate Bayesian Computation and the Socks of Karl Broman: The Movie

July 26, 2015
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This is a screencast of my UseR! 2015 presentation: Tiny Data, Approximate Bayesian Computation and the Socks of Karl Broman. Based on the original blog post it is a quick’n’dirty introduction to approximate Bayesian computation (and is also, in ...

## Why I use Panel/Multilevel Methods

July 24, 2015
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$Why I use Panel/Multilevel Methods$

I don’t understand why any researcher would choose not to use panel/multilevel methods on panel/hierarchical data. Let’s take the following linear regression as an example: , where is a random effect for the i-th group. A pooled OLS regression model for the above is unbiased and consistent. However, it will be inefficient, unless for all […]

## Stan 2.7 (CRAN, variational inference, and much much more)

July 22, 2015
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Stan 2.7 is now available for all interfaces. As usual, everything you need can be found starting from the Stan home page: http://mc-stan.org/ Highlights RStan is on CRAN!(1) Variational Inference in CmdStan!!(2) Two new Stan developers!!!  A whole new logo!!!!  Math library with autodiff now available in its own repo!!!!!  (1) Just doing install.packages(“rstan”) isn’t […] The post Stan 2.7 (CRAN, variational inference, and much much more) appeared first on…

## Le Monde puzzle [#920]

July 22, 2015
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A puzzling Le Monde mathematical puzzle (or blame the heat wave): A pocket calculator with ten keys (0,1,…,9) starts with a random digit n between 0 and 9. A number on the screen can then be modified into another number by two rules: 1. pressing k changes the k-th digit v whenever it exists into […]

## Parametric Inference: Karlin-Rubin Theorem

July 20, 2015
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A family of pdfs or pmfs $\{g(t|\theta):\theta\in\Theta\}$ for a univariate random variable $T$ with real-valued parameter $\theta$ has a monotone likelihood ratio (MLR) if, for every $\theta_2>\theta_1$, $g(t|\theta_2)/g(t|\theta_1)$ is a monotone ...

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