Publications by Educate-R - R

Remove leading 0 with ggplot2.

22.03.2015

I recently had an occasion while working on a three variable interaction plot for a paper where I wanted to remove the leading 0’s in the x-axis text labels using ggplot2. This was primarily due to some space concerns I had for the x-axis labels. Unfortunately, I did not find an obvious way to do this in my first go around. After tickering a bi...

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Speed test of sequence generation for unbalanced simulation

30.03.2015

I have a simulation package that allows for the simulation of regression models including nested data structures. You can see the package on github here: simReg. Over the weekend I updated the package to allow for the simulation of unbalanced designs. I’m hoping to put together a new vigenette soon highlighting the functionality. I am working o...

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Web Scraping to Item Response Theory – A College Football Adventure

04.12.2015

Web Scraping to Item Response Theory: A College Football Adventure Brandon LeBeau, Andrew Zieffler, and Kyle Nickodem University of Iowa & University of Minnesota Background Began after Tim Brewster was fired Wanted to try to predict next great coach Data Available Data is available at three levels Coach Game by Game Team Coach Data Overa...

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Interactively building test forms from an IRT perspective An application of R and Shiny

18.02.2016

Interactively building test forms from an IRT perspective: An application of R and Shiny Brandon LeBeau University of Iowa Overview R R is an open source statistical programming language. Pros: Common statistical procedures are found in R Can extend functionality with packages/functions Cons: Need to be comfortable with code Reproducible ...

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Simulation and power analysis of generalized linear mixed models

28.06.2016

Simulation and power analysis of generalized linear mixed models Brandon LeBeau University of Iowa Overview (G)LMMs Power simglm package Demo Shiny App! Linear Mixed Model (LMM) Power Power is the ability to statistically detect a true effect (i.e. non-zero population effect). For simple models (e.g. t-tests, regression) there are closed for...

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Extending accessibility of open-source statistical software to the masses A shiny case study

06.10.2016

Extending accessibility of open-source statistical software to the masses: A shiny case study Brandon LeBeau University of Iowa R R is an open source statistical programming language. Pros: Common statistical procedures are found in R Can extend functionality with packages/functions Cons: Need to be comfortable with code Flexibility of R ...

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Introduction of the pdfsearch package

02.12.2016

I’m happy to introduce an add-on package, pdfsearch, that adds the ability to do keyword searches on pdf files. This add-on package uses the excellent pdftools package from the ropensci project to read in pdf files and perform keyword searches based character strings of interest. Installation The package is currently only hosted on github and c...

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Use CSS to format markdown or HTML files

03.01.2017

Markdown (and Rmarkdown) are great ways to quickly develop material without worrying about the formatting. The documents can then be compiled using the knitr or rmarkdown packages to output formats such as HTML, latex, or even word. The main drawback of this approach is that formatting of documents is limited to italics, bold, or strikethrough. M...

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Make Power Fun (Again?)

24.02.2017

Make Power Fun (Again?) Brandon LeBeau University of Iowa Overview (G)LMMs Power simglm package Shiny Demo – Broken! Linear Mixed Model (LMM) Power Power is the ability to statistically detect a true effect (i.e. non-zero population effect). For simple models (e.g. t-tests, regression) there are closed form equations for generating power. ...

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simglm submission to CRAN this week

22.05.2017

This is a quick note looking for any further feedback on the simglm package prior to CRAN submission later this week. The goal is to submit Thursday or Friday this week. The last few documentation finishing touches are happening now working toward a version 0.5.0 release on CRAN. For those who have not seen this package yet, the aim is to simulat...

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