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Elena Belogolovsky writes: Congratulations to the R Core Team on receiving the 2026 Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics. R has made creative, open-ended statistical analysis and graphic...
How to Perform PCA in R: A Step-by-Step Tutorial Using prcomp() To perform PCA in R, use the built-in prcomp() function: pca 1), or a cumulative variance threshold — this tutorial...
The Rousseeuw Prize honors five pioneering developers for nearly three decades of unpaid work building R, the foundational open-source computing language behind artificial intellig...
The Rousseeuw Prize honors five pioneering developers for nearly three decades of unpaid work building R, the foundational open-source computing language behind artificial intellig...
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My client's supervisor had rejected Chapter 4 twice. Not because the data was bad — the field trial was clean, the yield measurements precise. The problem was the statistics. And u...
We ran this a few years ago but it remains interesting so I’m reposting: There’s a old saying in biology that the development of the organism recapitulates the development of the s...
Introduction In my previous job my work computer was a Windows desktop – yes, those were the days before laptops and hotdesking! My PhD student was interested in Bayesian methods a...
Aki, Richard, Lizzie, and I put together a special issue on Statistical Workflow for the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. I guess “royal” isn’t as impressive as it...
From exploratory statistics to publication-ready visualisations — a practical, field-tested guide to the software every researcher should…Continue reading on Medium »
Or how to plot a very famous album cover. Continue reading: cp1919 is on CRAN
We’ve talked about uncertainty in polls (see Margin of Error, Total Margin of Error, Total Margin of Error II) and we’ve talked about ranked data (see exploded logit !). A new pape...
This post is by Bob. I’ve been thinking a lot lately about R-hat given that I’m using it for online converging monitoring in our new Walnuts implementation. In that setting, where...
Three hundred twenty-three of the new packages were submitted to CRAN in May. Here are my Top 40 picks in eighteen categories: Artificial Intelligence, Computational Methods, Ecolo...
Last week we talked about The Big Changes Coming to the Times/Siena Poll: New weighting variable: support score = E(2024 vote | other X variables). New weighting method: energy bal...
Three hundred seventy-six of the new packages submitted to CRAN in April were still there in mid-May. Here are my Top 40 picks in twenty-three categories: Actuarial Analysis, Archa...
Due tomorrow (June 10): Enter a contest for Alexandre Andorra’s interview of Aki, Richard, and Andrew about their new book Bayesian Workflow. I hope folks ask about evaluating MRP...
I just got to chat with Andrew and some of the authors of the MrPlew paper: Ryan Giordano, Erin Hartman, and Avi Feller. Lots more I have to digest here ! The paper came out while...
"Do countries with higher GDP per capita also have longer life expectancy?" I built a tool that lets you explore questions like that across 48 countries by picking any two of five...
Stop writing mean() and std() for every column. Learn how to automate descriptive statistics in Python and generate publication-ready summary tables in just a few steps.
I realised that people that come from Stata struggle with R's current UI approach. Continue reading: Let’s create a minimal R GUI (R GUI 2, previously Q)
TheseusPlot is an R package that decomposes differences in a rate metric between two groups into subgroup-level contributions and visualizes the results as a “Theseus Plot”. For ex...
Introduction: The Laboratorial Illusion In quantitative finance, Large Language Model (LLM) multi-agent systems are frequently celebrated for their theoretical intelligence. Financ...
A reasonably straightforward post today. I wanted to look at monthly tourism numbers in Samoa. In fact I started to do this for Pacific islands in general, but the data wrangling c...
{talib} is a new R package built on TA-Lib, which is now available on CRAN. The R-package is targeted at individuals and, perhaps, institutions who, in some form or the other, inte...
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