- If you do your statistical work in R, but need to present results in slides, read up on how to make your R figures legible in Powerpoint/Keynote presentations.
- We have a collection of good R tips and tricks this week: How to see source code of built-in functions in R, Calling Python from R with rPython, Some good R programming tips, Averaging R Datasets By Group, and An introduction to dplyr (a set of tools for efficiently manipulating datasets).
- Andrew Gelman gives some advice on writing research articles.
- Xi’an discusses a recent paper on accelerated ABC (approximate Bayesian computation), presented during MCMSki 4.
- And finally, show that for any random variables X and Y, and a constant c, we have P(X+Y>c) ≤ P(X>c/2) +P (Y>c/2)
MCMSki 4, Chamonix Mont-Blanc, Jan. 6-8, 2014