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• Tall big data, wide big data

  After attending two one-day workshops last week I spent most days paying attention to (well, at least listening to) presentations…
  13 Dec, '11

• R, academia and the democratization of statistics

  I am not a statistician but I use statistics, teach statistics and write about applications of statistics in biological problems.
  12 Dec, '11

• On the (statistical) road, workshops and R

  Things have been a bit quiet at Quantum Forest during the last ten days. Last Monday (Sunday for most readers)…
  3 Dec, '11

• Solomon saith

  皿 Solomon saith, There is no new thing upon the earth. So that as Plato had an imagination, that all knowledge…
  25 Nov, '11

• If you are writing a book on Bayesian statistics

  This post is somewhat marginal to R in that there are several statistical systems that could be used to tackle…
  24 Nov, '11

• No one would ever conceive

  皿 I believe that no one who is familiar, either with mathematical advances in other fields, or with the range of…
  23 Nov, '11

• Do we need to deal with ‘big data’ in R?

  David Smith at the Revolutions blog posted a nice presentation on “big data” (oh, how I dislike that term). It…
  22 Nov, '11

• Surviving a binomial mixed model

  A few years ago we had this really cool idea: we had to establish a trial to understand wood quality…
  12 Nov, '11

• On “true” models

  皿 Before starting the description of the probability distributions, we want to impose on the reader the essential feature that a…
  8 Nov, '11

• Coming out of the (Bayesian) closet: multivariate version

  This week I’m facing my—and many other lecturers’—least favorite part of teaching: grading exams. In a supreme act of procrastination…
  8 Nov, '11