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, […]
2011 Per Capita Budget Highest Ever
President Obama submitted the 2011 fiscal year budget. If Congress passes it—and history shows that the approximate amount requested is usually granted—then this will be the highest the USA has ever spent, […]
Why Global Warming Won’t Go Away: Inertia
Rajendra Pachauri—chairman of the IPCC, railway engineer, and the man who penned these words, “Sanjay saw a shapely dark-skinned girl lying on Vinay’s bed. He was overcome by a lust that he […]
Welcome-to-Saturday Links
My heart soared like a hawk this week after several readers sent in fascinating stories. Here are a few of them. Reader Sara C sent in a wonderful example of how easy […]
R Lecture 4: Help & Plotting
This is the fourth in a series of lectures on R. 10 minutes is a shockingly short period of time! Today, we learn the R way to create comments: start lines with […]
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