Publications by Andrew Gelman
Bayesian logistic regression software
Aleks pointed me to this site by Alexander Genkin, David D. Lewis, and David Madigan that has a program for Bayesian logistic regression. It appears to allow some hierarchical modeling and can fit very large datasets. I haven’t tried it… Related To leave a comment for the author, please follow the link and comment on their blog: Se...
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A new default prior distribution for logistic and other regression coefficients
This (by Aleks, Grazia, Yu-Sung, and myself) is really cool. Here’s the abstract: We propose a new prior distribution for classical (non-hierarchical) logistic regression models, constructed by first scaling all nonbinary variables to have mean 0 and standard deviation 0.5,… Related To leave a comment for the author, please follow t...
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Graphs from tables
Samantha Ross writes:… Related To leave a comment for the author, please follow the link and comment on their blog: Search Results for R. R-bloggers.com offers daily e-mail updates about R news and tutorials about learning R and many other topics. Click here if you're looking to post or find an R/data-science job. Want to share yo...
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Recent changes in the R package "arm" (applied regression and multilevel modeing)
Yu-Sung writes,… Related To leave a comment for the author, please follow the link and comment on their blog: Search Results for R. R-bloggers.com offers daily e-mail updates about R news and tutorials about learning R and many other topics. Click here if you're looking to post or find an R/data-science job. Want to share your con...
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If you don’t use R to fit multilevel models, there’s no point in reading this one
David Afshartous writes, What is the difference between sim() and mcsamp(), if any? If there is a difference, what should I expect in terms of difference in results? My reply:… Related To leave a comment for the author, please follow the link and comment on their blog: Search Results for R. R-bloggers.com offers daily e-mail updates...
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What is faster, Winbugs or Openbugs?
Sandra McBride writes: My current model (in Winbugs) runs very slowly on my very slow laptop, so I am getting a new desktop. Here are some questions in the hopes of speeding up my model: Is Winbugs or Openbugs multithreaded?… Related To leave a comment for the author, please follow the link and comment on their blog: Search Results f...
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Who wants school vouchers? Rich whites and poor nonwhites
As part of our Red State, Blue State research, we developed statistical tools for estimating public opinion among subsets of the population. Recently Yu-Sung Su, Yair Ghitza, and I applied these methods to see where school vouchers are more or… Related To leave a comment for the author, please follow the link and comment on their blog...
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Multiple Imputation with Diagnostics (mi) in R: Opening Windows into the Black Box
Our article (by Yu-Sung, Jennifer, Masanao, and myself, and based also on work with Kobi, Grazia, and Peter Messeri) will be appearing in the Journal of Statistical Software, in a special issue on missing-data imputation. Here’s the abstract: Our mi… Related To leave a comment for the author, please follow the link and comment on th...
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Income inequality and partisan voting in the United States
Lane Kenworthy, Yu-Sung Su, and I write: Income inequality in the United States has risen during the past several decades. Has this produced an increase in partisan voting differences between rich and poor? We examine trends from the 1940s through… Related To leave a comment for the author, please follow the link and comment on their ...
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Some sort of update to ggplot2
Jeroen Ooms writes: Here’s a first version of a new web application for exploratory graphical analysis. It attempts to implement the layered graphics from the R package ggplot2 in a user-friendly way. This two-minute demo video demonstrates a quick how-to…. Related To leave a comment for the author, please follow the link and commen...
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