- Do you know anything about the Hilbert Matrix (other than it is probably named after David Hilbert)? In his post this week, Nicholas Horton, Professor of Statistics at Amherst College, explains what it is, and how to create these matrices using both SAS and R.
- Xi’an discusses a new paper by Randal Douc, Florian Maire, and Jimmy Olsson called MCMC for sampling from mixture models.
- Some popular statistical articles this week are: Modeling Data With Functional Programming In R by Cartesian Faith, Make your ggplots shareable, collaborative, and with D3 by Matt Sundquist, Implementing a Principal Component Analysis (PCA) by Sebastian Raschka (for Python), and Ordering Datasets Alphabetically by geomorph.
- And finally, have you ever tried the popular mobile game 2048? If not, here are some code that you can run on your machine and start playing the game with R.
This is a Hilbert Cube, also named after David Hilbert.