Rick Davies just wrote an interesting post which combined thoughts on QCA (and multi-valued QCA or mvQCA) and classification trees with thoughts on INUS causation and classification trees. The question was something like: how can we look at... [Read more...]

Why study networks? Development and aid projects these days are more and more often focussing on supporting networks, so tools to analyse networks are always welcome. In this post I am going to present a very easy-to-use package for the stat... [Read more...]

  I wrote before about using heatmap tables to combine the strengths of tables and graphics for nominal data. Here is a neat approach using Sweave and latex to produce an effect like in the picture. This latex code is self-contain... [Read more...]

I have been really interested in the "meme" that the Egyptian revolution was "the first social media revolution" and have tolerated infographics that correlate specific twitter activity with events in Egypt beyond. And I ... [Read more...]

odfWeave is a great tool for your reproducible research workflow, using R to produce reproducible OpenOffice reports. But a few pieces are lacking. – It is a bit of a drag, every time you want to make a pdf, to have to find and open yo... [Read more...]

If you use odfWeave to produce figures, you will probably find they jump about when scrolling through the document – because the figures and figure frames are anchored in openoffice to the paragraph and not “as character”. ... [Read more...]

Most of the statistics work I do now is reproducible research - this can offer a big advantage for clients but of course that doesn't necessarily mean they realise it ... Below is a text we have been pasting in at the bottom of the source d... [Read more...]

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I have just completed my first Reproducible Research Compendium "Analysis of the combined survey datasets from the American Red Cross Tsunami Recovery Program Psycho-Social Project (adult community respondents)". It is basically all the repo... [Read more...]

We have a few computers including laptops in our network which all use R (r-project.org) for statistics. We use Dropbox to keep all our files in sync and we are all on ubuntu. The problem was that we wanted to keep our R installations in sy... [Read more...]

In the mixed effects regression for all 10 countries in the research I mentioned previously on this blog http://stevepowell99.posterous.com/which-parents-are-satisfied-with-their-childs, while school mean of "parents believing their represen... [Read more...]

At proMENTE social research we often use the odfWeave and Sweave packages for the amazing statistics program R for automating the production of graphics and reports. odfWeave and Sweave are for the OpenOffice and lyx (www.lyx.org) word proce... [Read more...]

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Struggling for two whole days to do some not-terribly-advanced repeated-measures analysis of variance in R. Probably my worst experience with R so far and really an example of where R could do with some centralisation of effort. I have explo... [Read more...]