I just came back from the future and let me be the first to tell you this: Learn some Chinese. And more than just cào nǐ niáng (肏你娘) which your friend in grad school told you means “Live happy with many blessings”. Trust me, I’ve been hanging with Madam Wu and she told me [...]
One of my primary uses for R is to build stochastic simulations of insurance portfolios and reinsurance treaties. It’s not uncommon for each of my simulations to take 20 seconds or more to complete (if you’re doing the math, that’s 55 hours for 10K sims or, approximately 453 games of solitaire) . Initially I ran [...]
Dave, over at The Revolutions Blog, posted about the big ‘ol list of graphs created with R that are over at Wikimedia Commons. As I was scrolling through the list I recognized the standard normal distribution from the Wikipedia article on the same topic.
Below is the fairly simple source code with lots of comments. Here’s [...]
So Andrew Gelman hates box plots. Not that you should give a buck what Gelman thinks. I’m just setting this blog post up, OK. So stick with me. Gelman also thought this XKCD cartoon was NOT funny :
There’s some correlation as well as causation. I could be wrong, but I suspect that the reason Gelman [...]