One of my clients is running a predictive modelling competition. The competition is free to enter and has a $10,000 prize fund. Interested? Read on…
The competition is being hosted at Kaggle. It’s very simple to register and to enter. The challenge …
Experimenting with a tty Connection for R I presented twice at this years useR!. The first was a regular talk on the tty connection patch for R. The talk went smoothly, despite a live demonstration using the DLP-232PC data acquisition module (datasheet). The slides for this presentation are here: shotwell-tty-useR-2011.pdf The image above is a […]
One of the things that frequently comes up in my research is the need to estimate a parameter from data, and then randomly draw samples from that parameter’s distribution to plug into another model. If you have a regular estimate from something like PROC LOGISTIC or PROC GENMOD, this is easy as pie, as SAS […]
Over the past few weeks I must have done about half a dozen SAS® 9.3 installations and deployments (mainly Linux 64-bit server and Windows 7 32-bit client). Not because of any problems really, just trying out a variety of options. My experiences have been very good. I must say the SAS installation and migration process […]
My first post on SAS bloggers begins with Rick Wicklin and I plan a series of posts. It would be nice for a statement of rational before following pages.
As a learner, I benefit frequently from lots of high quality blogs. But I’m also slightly lazy as a reader: I read almost all blogs in Google […]
I spent the last week working on a single request from a governmental oversight agencies that monitors one of the many federal contracts we have. The request involved pulling all of the data from the last four year years that met a broad criteria before running a fairly complex analysis on it. The worst part […]
I was recently inspired to comment on this blog post, asking is R is a cure for ‘mindless statistics’. Anyone whose familiar with statistics used in applied fields like epidemiology, sociology, social sciences generally will be familiar with the idea of a ‘statistical ritual’. Rather than think about the proper statistical approach to every question, […]
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