For a JavaScript-based project I’m working on, I need to be able to sample from a variety of probability distributions. There are ways to call R from JavaScript, but they depend on the server r...
https://statisticsblog.com/2015/10/15/random-samples-in-js-using-r-functions/
“So let’s start with the fact that the study had only 100 people, which isn’t nearly enough to be able to make any determinations like this. That’s very small power. Secondly, it was alre...
https://statisticsblog.com/2014/12/11/can-pregnant-women-intuit-the-sex-of-their-children/
Pinned, entropy augmented, digitally normal distribution, of no particular work-related use and thus perfectly suitable for today. Code in R: iters = 1000 sd = 2 precision = 20 results = rep(0,it...
https://statisticsblog.com/2014/09/01/labor-day-distribution-fun/
Larry Wasserman, Professor at Carnegie Mellon University, is a graduate of University of Toronto, a COPSS Award winner, and a leading statistician in Bayesian analysis and inference. In this post...
https://statisticsblog.com/2013/09/09/the-week-in-stats-sept-9th-edition/
In his book Quantum Computing Since Democritus, Scott Aaronson poses the following question: Suppose that you’re at a party where every guest is given a hat as they walk in. Each hat has either...
Head down to your local hardware store and pick up a smoke detector. Pop off the cover and look inside. You’ll see a label that mentions Americium 241, a radioactive isotope. Put on your HEV su...
In my never ending quest to find the perfect measure of tail fatness, I ran across this recent paper by Cooke, Nieboer, and Misiewicz. They created a measure called the “Obesity index.” Here�...
https://statisticsblog.com/2013/04/11/high-obesity-levels-found-among-fat-tailed-distributions/
VIDEO TRANSCRIPT: Hello, this is Matt Asher from StatisticsBlog.com. I’m going to be reviewing Mathematica 9, from Wolfram Research. In particular, I’ll be focusing on using it with R and to ...
https://statisticsblog.com/2013/03/18/review-of-mathematica-9-and-r-link/
Over the past couple weeks, I’ve been considering alternatives to R. I’d heard Python was much faster, so I translated a piece of R code with several nested loops into Python (it ran an order...
https://statisticsblog.com/2013/02/28/statistical-computation-in-javascript-am-i-nuts/
My daughter, who turns 10 in April, has discovered pop music. She’s been listing to Virgin Radio 99.9, one of our local stations. Virgin provides an online playlist that goes back four days...
https://statisticsblog.com/2013/02/22/whats-my-daughter-listening-to-html-chart-gen-in-r/