As part of my course in bayesian data analysis, I have put up some common linear mixed models that we fit in psycholinguistics. These are written in JAGS and Stan. Comments and suggestions for improvement are most welcome.Code: http://www.ling.uni-pots... [Read more...]

I decided to teach a basic course on bayesian data analysis with a focus on psycholinguistics. Here is the course website (below). How could this possibly be a bad idea!http://www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/~vasishth/advanceddataanalysis.html [Read more...]

As part of my long slog towards statistical understanding, I started making notes on the very specific topic of linear models. The details are tricky and hard to keep in mind, and it is difficult to go back and forth between books and notes to try to r... [Read more...]

Recently, on Andrew Gelman's blog there was a discussion about how to get yourself a statistics education (presumably without going through the whole process of becoming a professional statistician). Here's the discussion on Gelman's blog, with lots of... [Read more...]

I foolishly tried to convert a matrix M to a vector using vector:vector(M)But this is done column wise, so that adjacent row items end up non-adjacent.The right way to do this seems to be:library(data)unmatrix(M, byrow=TRUE) [Read more...]

Our book is finally coming out: You can buy it on Amazon.com, Amazon.de, or Springer.com. [Read more...]

This should be standard in Textmate, I don't know why one has to go through so many steps to get it working:http://gragusa.wordpress.com/2007/11/11/textmate-emacs-like-indentation-for-r-files/ [Read more...]