Publications by Andrew Gelman
Bayes fits the data less closely than maximum likelihood
Lluis Bermudez writes: I’m from University of Barcelona and I’ve using “arm” package to obtain posterior estimates of glm parameters. I usually worked with “glm” function, but I need more than a point estimation. The problem is that when using… Related To leave a comment for the author, please follow the link and comment o...
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Updated R code and data for ARM
Patricia and I have cleaned up some of the R and Bugs code and collected the data for almost all the examples in ARM. See here for links to zip files with the code and data…. 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 a...
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A data visualization manifesto
Details matter (at least, they do for me), but we don’t yet have a systematic way of going back and forth between the structure of a graph, its details, and the underlying questions that motivate our visualizations. (Cleveland, Wilkinson, and… Related To leave a comment for the author, please follow the link and comment on their blo...
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Distorting the Electoral Connection? Partisan Representation in Confirmation Politics
John Kastellec, Jeff Lax, and Justin Phillips write: Do senators respond to the preferences of their states’ median voters or only to the preferences of their co-partisans? We [Kastellec et al.] study responsiveness using roll call votes on ten recent… Related To leave a comment for the author, please follow the link and comment on ...
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The future of R (2010)
Some thoughts from Christian, including this bit: We need to consider separately 1. R’s brilliant library 2. R’s not-so-brilliant language and/or interpreter. I don’t know that R’s library is so brilliant as all that–if necessary, I don’t think it would… Related To leave a comment for the author, please follow...
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R vs. Stata, or, Different ways to estimate multilevel models
Cyrus writes: I [Cyrus] was teaching a class on multilevel modeling, and we were playing around with different method to fit a random effects logit model with 2 random intercepts—one corresponding to “family” and another corresponding to “community” (labeled “mom”… Related To leave a comment for the author, please follow...
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Ross Ihaka to R: Drop Dead
Christian Robert posts these thoughts: I [Ross Ihaka] have been worried for some time that R isn’t going to provide the base that we’re going to need for statistical computation in the future. (It may well be that the future… Related To leave a comment for the author, please follow the link and comment on their blog: Search Resul...
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Contest for developing an R package recommendation system
After I spoke tonight at the NYC R meetup, John Myles White and Drew Conway told me about this competition they’re administering for developing a recommendation system for R packages. They seem to have already done some work laying out… Related To leave a comment for the author, please follow the link and comment on their blog: Sea...
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Mandelbrot and Akaike: from taxonomy to smooth runways (pioneering work in fractals and self-similarity)
Mandelbrot on taxonomy (from 1955; the first publication about fractals that I know of): Searching for Mandelbrot on the blog led me to Akaike, who also recently passed away and also did interesting early work on self-similar stochastic processes. For… Related To leave a comment for the author, please follow the link and comment on th...
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Getting arm and lme4 running on the Mac
Our “arm” package in R requires Doug Bates’s “lme4” which fits multilevel models. lme4 is currently having some problems on the Mac. But installation on the Mac can be done; it just takes a bit of work. I have two… Related To leave a comment for the author, please follow the link and comment on their blog: Search Results fo...
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