- James Paul Peruvankal of Revoluntion Analytics shares the secrets of teaching R. Joseph Rickert of the same organization publishes some online sources to download data sets in his article called Data Sets for Data Science.
- Some interesting R related articles this week are: Species occurrence data by Karthik Ram of rOpenSci, barplot with ggplot2 by Martin Johnsson (PhD student at Linköping University), Stop using bivariate correlations for variable selection and The German Tank Problem: The Frequentist Way by Jacob Simmering (PhD student at University of Iowa), MCMC for Econometrics Students by Professor David Giles of University of Victoria (part I, part II and part III), Normality and Testing for Normality by Thomas Hopper (aka Learning as You Go), and It is time for RData files to become the standard for Data Transfer by Francis Smart (PhD student at Michigan State University).
- Xi’an discusses his new paper (with Matthew Moores and Kerrie Mengersen) called Pre-processing for approximate Bayesian computation in image analysis.
- And finally, the Royal Statistical Society publishes the Timeline of Statistics – a timeline with illustrations and texts that covers major events in the world of statistics starting from 450 BC.
The German “Tank” Problem