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Interview with Ani Eloyan and Betsy Ogburn 27 Aug 2013 | 07:25 pm
(This article was originally published at Simply Statistics, and syndicated at StatsBlogs.) Jeff and I interview Ani Eloyan and Betsy Ogburn, two new Assistant Professors in the Department of Biostat...
The Intellectual oubliette of p-values and Confidence Intervals. 27 Aug 2013 | 06:26 pm
(This article was originally published at Entsophy, and syndicated at StatsBlogs.) Criticizing P-values and Confidence Intervals (CI’s) is nothing new, but my aim is different. My goal is to tear dow...
Bayesian model averaging or fitting a larger model 27 Aug 2013 | 06:23 pm
(This article was originally published at Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science, and syndicated at StatsBlogs.) Nick Firoozye writes: I had a question about BMA [Bayesian model ...
C/C++: Mean 27 Aug 2013 | 06:13 pm
(This article was originally published at Analysis with Programming, and syndicated at StatsBlogs.) C Codes: C++ Codes: Output: Please comment on the article here: Analysis with Programming The p...
Hate the defaults 27 Aug 2013 | 05:33 pm
(This article was originally published at Junk Charts, and syndicated at StatsBlogs.) One piece of advice I give for those wanting to get into data visualization is to trash the defaults (see the la...
Round up of book news 27 Aug 2013 | 05:14 pm
(This article was originally published at Big Data, Plainly Spoken (aka Numbers Rule Your World), and syndicated at StatsBlogs.) Here are links to coverage of Numbersense. David Walker and I debate ...
Creating Marginal Effect Plots for Linear Regression Models in R 27 Aug 2013 | 04:00 pm
(This article was originally published at Carlisle Rainey » Methods/Statistics, and syndicated at StatsBlogs.) Suppose we estimate the model \(E(y) = \beta_xx + \beta_zz + \beta_{xz}xz\) and want to...
googleVis 0.4.4 released with new formatting options for tables 27 Aug 2013 | 10:57 am
(This article was originally published at mages' blog, and syndicated at StatsBlogs.) Over the weekend googleVis 0.4.4 found its way to CRAN. The function gvisTable gained a new argument formats that...
MCMSki IV, Jan. 6-8, 2014, Chamonix (news #7) 27 Aug 2013 | 03:13 am
(This article was originally published at Xi'an's Og » R, and syndicated at StatsBlogs.) More exciting (and important!) news about MCMSki IV: First, some if not all of the 9 invited and the 16 contr...
Latent Variable Mixture Modeling: When Heterogeneity Requires Both Categories and Dimensions 26 Aug 2013 | 11:25 pm
(This article was originally published at Engaging Market Research, and syndicated at StatsBlogs.) Dichotomies come easily to us, especially when they are caricatures as shown in this cartoon. These...