After reading Enrico Tonini post, I decided to map the super typhoon Haiyan track using OpenStreetMap, maptools, and ggplot2. If mapping with googleVis was possible with 13 lines only, that can also be achieved with the packages I used; but because I p...

Last month, October 15, 2013 around 8:12 am (Philippine Time), a magnitude 7.2 earthquake hit Bohol island, detroying several infrastructures and killing hundreds of residents. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology or PhiVolcs recorde...

QUESTIONSThe tensile strength of Portland cement is being studied. Four different mixing techniques can be used economically. The following data have been collected: MixingTechniques Tensile Strength (lb/in­­2) 1 3129 3000 2865 2890 2 3200 3300 2975 3150 3 2800 2900 3985 3050 4 2600 2700 2600 2765 Test the hypothesis that mixing techniques affect the strength of the cement. Use $\alpha=0.05$.Construct a graphical display as described in Section 3...

I have been working at Provincial Statistics Office of Tawi-Tawi (Philippines) which was part of the training on my OJT (On-Job Training). One of the requirements of the training is at least 80 hours of services, so I decided to work from April 19 to M...