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Memory Management in R, and SOAR

May 8, 2012 | inkhorn82

The more I’ve worked with my really large data set, the more cumbersome the work has become to my work computer. Keep in mind I’ve got a quad core with 8 gigs of RAM. With growing irritation at how slow … Continue reading → [Read more...]

Confidence interval for predictions with GLMs

November 4, 2011 | arthur charpentier

Consider a (simple) Poisson regression . Given a sample where , the goal is to derive a 95% confidence interval for given , where is the prediction. Hence, we want to derive a confidence interval for the prediction, not the potential observation... [Read more...]

Test Difference between Two Proportions & Plot Confidence Intervals

August 11, 2011 | Kay Cichini

..an illustrative example for testing proportions and presenting the results.the data: number of indigenous and alien plant species with and without vegetative reproduction. Hypothesis: The proportion of species with vegetative reproduction is differen...

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Model Validation: Interpreting Residual Plots

July 18, 2011 | Daniel Hocking

When conducting any statistical analysis it is important to evaluate how well the model fits the data and that the data meet the assumptions of the model. There are numerous ways to do this and a variety of statistical tests to evaluate deviations from model assumptions. However, there is little ...

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My residuals look weird… aren’t they ?

November 3, 2010 | arthur charpentier

Since I got the same question twice, let us look at it quickly.... Some students show me a graph (from a Poisson regression) which looks like that, and they asked "isn't it weird ?", i.e."residuals are null or positive... this is not what we... [Read more...]

Studying joint effects in a regression

October 7, 2010 | arthur charpentier

We've seen in the previous post (here) how important the *-cartesian product to model joint effected in the regression. Consider the case of two explanatory variates, one continuous (, the age of the driver) and one qualitative (, gasoline ve... [Read more...]

R Commander – logistic regression

June 23, 2010 | Ralph

We can use the R Commander GUI to fit logistic regression models with one or more explanatory variables. There are also facilities to plot data and consider model diagnostics. The same series of menus as for linear models are used to fit a logistic regression model. Fast Tube by Casper ... [Read more...]

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