Notices tagged with rstats, page 145

The "one size fits all" approach to data analysis - also known as "give me a quart and a half of statistics and just make sure that there is a p-value less than 5% somewhere in there" - doesn't fit well into the R system.
-- Douglas Bates
R-help (March 2008) #Rstats

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Jeremy Koster: My students were looking at the estimated varying intercepts for each higher-level group (or the "BLUP's", as some people seem to call them).
Douglas Bates: As Alan James once said, "these values are just like the BLUPs - Best Linear Unbiased Predictors - except that they aren't linear and they aren't unbiased and there is no clear sense in which they are "best", but other than that ..."
-- Jeremy Koster and Douglas Bates
R-SIG-Mixed-Models (July 2012) #Rstats

You can't expect statistical procedures to rescue you from poor data.
-- Berton Gunter (on dealing with missing values in a cluster analysis)
R-help (April 2005) #Rstats

How did we get here? Three
different Premier League stories. https://link.rweekly.org/9hm #rstats #datascience

AI, Machine Learning and Data Science Roundup: March 2018 https://link.rweekly.org/9hl #rstats #datascience

Multiple Versions of R https://link.rweekly.org/9hj #rstats #datascience

We are teaching stuff like mathematics, statistics, statistical programming and so on, but we cannot teach each possible software product - we also don't teach how to analyze each possible dataset that might find its way to the statistician's desk, we just use the iris data and Anscombe's quartet. ;-)
-- Uwe Ligges (in a thread about whether universities have to teach students how to use commercial software)
R-help (April 2005) #Rstats

R Tip: Break up Function Nesting for Legibility https://link.rweekly.org/9he #rstats #datascience

These road distances seem to be very non-Euclidean indeed (even non-metric). It seems to be 2282km from Athens to Milan if you go directly, but if you go via Rome it is only 1403km. I thought that World is non-Euclidean, but not that obviously.
-- Jari Oksanen (on the eurodist data)
R-help (October 2004) #Rstats

Regression Analysis Essentials For Machine Learning https://link.rweekly.org/9h5 #rstats #datascience

R and Docker https://link.rweekly.org/9h3 #rstats #datascience

Michael Dewey: When I started I found the free documents useful but I made most progress when I bought MASS. I do realise that liking books is a bit last millennium.
Thomas Lumley: Very late last millenium, though. "When I were young[er] we didn't have all these fancy yellow books."
-- Michael Dewey and Thomas Lumley (about different kinds of documentation for R)
R-help (January 2006) #Rstats

RSAGA 1.0.0 https://link.rweekly.org/9gu #rstats #datascience

[...] (damn... my shift key just broke as well...)
bill venables.
-- Bill Venables (answering a message that lacked upper case letters)
R-help (April 2005) #Rstats

Truncated Poisson distributions in R and Stan by @ellis2013nz https://link.rweekly.org/9gp #rstats #datascience

A rentrez paper, and how to use the NCBI's new API keys https://link.rweekly.org/9go #rstats #datascience

Some of us feel that type III sum of squares and so-called ls-means are statistical nonsense which should have been left in SAS.
-- Brian D. Ripley
s-news (May 1999) #Rstats