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 […]
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, […]
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, […]
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