Roger Kimball is causing a stink, a predictable yet enjoyable stink, by publishing Anthony Daniels’s review of an Ayn Rand biography in this month’s The New Criterion. There are two enduring internet-subjects […]
Ayn Rand and the Differences Between Groups
What do you guys look like?
How many of you are there? According to a mixture of WordPress and Google Analytics statistics reports, I receive roughly twelve to fifteen hundred hits per day. That’s excluding bots and other […]
R Lecture 7: Reading External Data Part II
10 minutes is a shockingly short period of time! Today, some common errors you WILL see when you try to read in data. The code below has many typos. Watch for Windows […]
Climate Skeptic Conspiracy Strikes!
I have never been part of a conspiracy before—there was never the opportunity—so you can imagine how excited I am about finally joining one. It’s true that, in 1978, I, my sister, […]
R Lecture 6: Reading External Data Part I
10 minutes is a shockingly short period of time! Go to https://www.wmbriggs.com/book/ and save the advertising.csv file into your myR folder. Make SURE it is saved as a CSV file and NOT […]
Quirk’s: Telling the future from the past: predictive versus classical statistics
Today’s post is at Quirk’s, the well known trade journal and marketing research review. If you want to read the article on-line at Quirk’s, registration is required, but free. You can also […]
Malthus Was Wrong, But Not Why You Think
It’s hard to think of a historical writer more misunderstood than Thomas Malthus. A week doesn’t go by without somebody dropping his name, but only to show how wrong he was. Take […]
R Lecture 5: Reading Built-in Data
This is the fifth in a series of lectures on R. 10 minutes is a shockingly short period of time! Today, we read in some datasets that come with R. To list, […]
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