I already mentioned R for dummies a while ago on the ‘Og and never got around to read it from cover to back. Now that I am reduced to a dummy state with too much free time!, I can produce a full review of the book. R for dummies was written by two Belgian statistics […]
More exciting news about MCMSki IV! First thing first, the 16 contributed sessions are now all-set, having gotten the stamp of approval from the scientific committee! Thanks to everyone who submitted a session proposal. (There were so many proposals that we alas had to reject some, as well as every single talk proposal… Sorry people: […]
Today, the BayesComp section of ISBA launched its website. It is organised as a wiki and members of the section are strongly incited to take part into the construction of the website. To quote from Peter Green’s introduction: This new Wikidot site aims to be a community-edited resource on all aspects of Bayesian computation, available […]
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If you have missed the item of information, Håvard Rue is giving an ISBA webinar tomorrow on INLA: the ISBA Webinar on INLA is scheduled for April 4th, 2013 from 8:30 - 12:30 EDT. ------------------------------------------------------- To join the online meeting (Now from mobile devices using the Cisco WebEx Meeting App) ------------------------------------------------------- 1. Go to https://www.webex.com/login/attend-a-meeting […]
Over the last Sunday breakfast I went through Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data. The first two pages managed to put me in a prejudiced mood for the rest of the book. To wit: the author starts with some math bashing (like, no one ever bothers to tell us about the uses of [...]
An announcement for an Icelandic meeting next September, meeting I would have loved to attend (darn!)… This meeting is sponsored by the BayesComp session, of course!!! We are pleased to announce that the University of Iceland will host the 3rd Workshop on Bayesian Inference for Latent Gaussian Models with Applications (LGM). The workshop will be [...]
Needless to say, it is with great pleasure I am back in beautiful Padova for the workshop Recent Advances in statistical inference: theory and case studies, organised by Laura Ventura and Walter Racugno. Esp. when considering this is one of the last places I met with George Casella, in June 2010. As we have plenty [...]
More news about MCMSki IV! Remember, the call is still open for contributed sessions for a few more weeks, till March. 20 to be precise (make sure to contact me at bayesianstatistics@gmail.com if you are considering putting one session together). To all those who already submitted a session, thanks a lot, please stay tuned, and [...]
I got this email from a student: (1) I used the following R function in package “emdbook“ more precisely I did (2) instead I use the following R function in package “VGAM“ more precisely I did and I get two different curves! Sad! to which I replied only the following as the beta-binomial density is [...]
The special issue of CHANCE on George Casella’s books has now appeared and it contains both my earlier post on George passing away and reviews of several of his books, as follows: Andrew Gelman on Introducing Monte Carlo Methods with R Bill Strawderman on Statistical Inference Jean-Louis Foulley on Variance Components Larry Wasserman on Theory [...]
