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2021
October
- October 21, 2021 » Git Commits Finish the Sentence 'If this commit is accepted, it will ...'
- October 13, 2021 » Using TEX root in child document to compile parent document
2020
May
- May 31, 2020 » Reading a directory of data with drake
- May 15, 2020 » Complete survey data using tidyr
March
- March 12, 2020 » Code to create a favicon for Flatten the Curve
- March 12, 2020 » Exponential growth of COVID19 in Des Moines, IA
- March 11, 2020 » Exponential growth of COVID19 in Ames, IA
- March 10, 2020 » Flatten the curve for COVID19
January
- January 30, 2020 » Pre-registered research
- January 10, 2020 » Iowa by the numbers
2019
December
- December 20, 2019 » Data: raw vs derived vs tidy
June
- June 5, 2019 » Sample size
- June 5, 2019 » Particle movement
March
- March 26, 2019 » Complicated design and therefore analysis
February
- February 26, 2019 » Plant metabolomics
- February 12, 2019 » Adaptive design of glove sensitivity
January
- January 15, 2019 » Prairie spillover analysis
2018
December
- December 19, 2018 » Setting Excel dates to the ISO standard
November
- November 29, 2018 » Baby chick preferences
October
- October 24, 2018 » Percentage of individuals who have cell phones
- October 11, 2018 » River dredging effect on biomass
- October 11, 2018 » Fish stress
September
- September 27, 2018 » Flow cytometry
- September 27, 2018 » CPA firms
- September 27, 2018 » Academic Misconduct
- September 13, 2018 » Drill hole element relationship
- September 13, 2018 » Calculating half-life
August
- August 9, 2018 » Sniper-spotter
July
- July 26, 2018 » Imputing missing data in surveys
May
- May 3, 2018 » Binary response with temporal explanatory variables
April
- April 5, 2018 » PCR Dilutions
- April 5, 2018 » Nanovaccine
- April 3, 2018 » Notes from Faculty Senate meeting on 3 Apr 2018
March
- March 22, 2018 » Incomplete block design
- March 20, 2018 » Notes from Faculty Senate meeting on 20 Mar 2018
February
- February 22, 2018 » Heteroskedasticity in bird point counts
- February 8, 2018 » Permutation test for randomized complete block design
January
- January 16, 2018 » Notes from Faculty Senate meeting on 16 Jan 2018
2017
December
- December 12, 2017 » Notes from Faculty Senate meeting on 12 Dec 2017
- December 6, 2017 » Guides to data management and reproducible code
November
- November 29, 2017 » Split plot
- November 29, 2017 » Meta-analysis with missing standard errors
- November 29, 2017 » Bayes Rule for haploid identification
- November 15, 2017 » Split-split plot
- November 14, 2017 » Notes from Faculty Senate meeting on 14 Nov 2017
- November 9, 2017 » Intrinsic CAR using CARBayes
- November 9, 2017 » Leroux CAR using CARBayes
- November 8, 2017 » Simulating spatial data
- November 1, 2017 » Ignoring interactions (part 2)
October
- October 19, 2017 » Data entry in R
- October 18, 2017 » Using R and RStudio for data management
- October 18, 2017 » Ignoring interactions
- October 4, 2017 » Lower pvalue threshold to 0.005
September
- September 12, 2017 » Notes from Faculty Senate meeting on 12 Sep 2017
- September 7, 2017 » ggplot2 ISU palette
August
- August 31, 2017 » Getting started with R/RStudio and Git/GitHub
January
- January 2, 2017 » Big Bang Theory is popular at Iowa State
2016
July
- July 14, 2016 » Non-significance after adjusting
April
- April 26, 2016 » The True Prior
2015
July
- July 9, 2015 » Probability interpretation for Mars rescue mission
2014
December
- December 2, 2014 » Do lefties earn more?
September
- September 14, 2014 » Vikings with and without Peterson
January
- January 15, 2014 » A Book for Dennis Lindley
2013
November
- November 13, 2013 » Realizations from a stick breaking representation of a Dirichlet process
- November 13, 2013 » Fitting a Dirichlet process mixture
- November 7, 2013 » Finite mixtures
October
- October 29, 2013 » Slice sampling for multimodal targets
- October 24, 2013 » Slice sampling
- October 10, 2013 » Most people who have been confirmed to have MERS CoV infection developed severe acute respiratory illness
- October 8, 2013 » DLM MCMC
- October 3, 2013 » Rejection sampling
- October 3, 2013 » Importance sampling
September
- September 19, 2013 » Interweaving Gibbs samplers
- September 12, 2013 » Bayesian logistic regression
- September 12, 2013 » Bayesian LASSO
- September 5, 2013 » Exploration of ridge regression
August
- August 30, 2013 » AAAS CEO points out correlation does not imply causation
- August 29, 2013 » soccer analytics
- August 27, 2013 » Dennis Lindley interview
June
- June 26, 2013 » Bayesian vs frequentist
January
- January 25, 2013 » Flu effectiveness
- January 24, 2013 » Starting up with Git/Github
2012
October
- October 6, 2012 » Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-10-06
- October 4, 2012 » Detecting trends in low/high abundance species
September
- September 29, 2012 » Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-09-29
- September 1, 2012 » Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-09-01
August
- August 18, 2012 » Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-08-18
- August 4, 2012 » Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-08-04
July
- July 21, 2012 » Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-07-21
- July 14, 2012 » Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-07-14
June
- June 30, 2012 » Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-06-30
- June 24, 2012 » Scientist shortage is a myth
- June 23, 2012 » Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-06-23
- June 18, 2012 » University president compensation to professor compensation
- June 15, 2012 » parameters are fixed but unknown even to Bayesians
May
- May 5, 2012 » Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-05-05
April
- April 28, 2012 » Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-04-28
- April 21, 2012 » Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-04-21
- April 14, 2012 » Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-04-14
- April 13, 2012 » It's annoying when the high-and-mighty statisticians get the statistics wrong
February
- February 21, 2012 » Publishing datasets
- February 20, 2012 » Current flu status
- February 18, 2012 » Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-02-18
- February 4, 2012 » Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-02-04
January
- January 28, 2012 » Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-01-28
- January 21, 2012 » Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-01-21
- January 14, 2012 » Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-01-14
- January 7, 2012 » Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-01-07
2011
December
- December 15, 2011 » Convergence to a distribution
- December 10, 2011 » Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-12-10
- December 8, 2011 » Bayesian spatial/temporal position at University of Arkansas
- December 7, 2011 » Iowa Contingent at the 2011 ISDS Conference
November
- November 19, 2011 » Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-11-19
- November 12, 2011 » Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-11-12
- November 5, 2011 » Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-11-05
- November 3, 2011 » CompStat: making R packages
- November 2, 2011 » Models
October
- October 29, 2011 » Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-10-29
- October 27, 2011 » update error for node...algorithm discrete slice updater error can not sample node too many iterations
- October 27, 2011 » this component of node is not stochastic
- October 26, 2011 » expected variable name error
- October 26, 2011 » expected left pointing arrow < - or twiddles ~ error
- October 22, 2011 » Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-10-22
- October 21, 2011 » No error error in OpenBUGS
- October 20, 2011 » modifying priors when posteriors don't agree with intuition
- October 19, 2011 » Finding an advisor
- October 15, 2011 » Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-10-15
- October 14, 2011 » Significance article on statistical graphics
- October 8, 2011 » Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-10-08
- October 7, 2011 » unknown type of logical function
- October 7, 2011 » number of items not equal to size of node
- October 7, 2011 » expected variable name error
- October 7, 2011 » expected left pointing arrow < - or twiddles ~ error
- October 6, 2011 » How do you calculate a median?
- October 1, 2011 » Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-10-01
September
- September 24, 2011 » Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-09-24
- September 19, 2011 » Reproducible research
- September 17, 2011 » Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-09-17
- September 15, 2011 » The scientific basis for Bachmann
- September 14, 2011 » Venting - Lessons from a Virus
- September 10, 2011 » Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-09-10
- September 3, 2011 » Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-09-03
August
- August 31, 2011 » JCGS code
- August 30, 2011 » Inverse gamma priors for variance parameters are informative
- August 29, 2011 » Default priors
- August 28, 2011 » Should we invert hypothesis tests to create confidence intervals
- August 27, 2011 » Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-08-27
- August 20, 2011 » Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-08-20
- August 19, 2011 » Matt Damon on why teachers teach
May
- May 16, 2011 » Open problems in Bayesian statistics
- May 14, 2011 » Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-05-14
April
- April 16, 2011 » Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-04-16
March
- March 30, 2011 » Sweave on MacOSX
- March 9, 2011 » Possible H2N2 pandemic
- March 5, 2011 » Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-03-05
February
- February 26, 2011 » Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-02-26
- February 19, 2011 » Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-02-19
- February 12, 2011 » Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-02-12
- February 5, 2011 » Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-02-05
- February 2, 2011 » Egyptians fighting for freedom
January
- January 29, 2011 » Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-01-29
- January 28, 2011 » UCI Systems Biology conference
- January 25, 2011 » Approximate Bayesian Computation seminar
- January 24, 2011 » GLM data sets
- January 22, 2011 » Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-01-22
- January 21, 2011 » Bank failure rate
- January 20, 2011 » The Nocebo Effect
- January 15, 2011 » Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-01-15
- January 13, 2011 » PhDs lacking skills
- January 12, 2011 » Statistics and Applied Psychology
- January 12, 2011 » Seminar today
- January 8, 2011 » Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-01-08
- January 4, 2011 » Tweet test
- January 4, 2011 » PhD writing skills
- January 4, 2011 » 200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes
2010
December
- December 30, 2010 » MCMSki poster
November
- November 15, 2010 » Counting cholera
- November 3, 2010 » Chicken pox vaccine
October
- October 29, 2010 » News editor for Significance Magazine
- October 22, 2010 » Cholera outbreak in Haiti
- October 13, 2010 » Getting started with CUDA
- October 13, 2010 » CUDA troubles
September
- September 29, 2010 » UCSB Stats&AppProb Ranking
- September 28, 2010 » Measles outbreak in Zimbabwe
- September 20, 2010 » Legionnaires outbreak in UK
- September 15, 2010 » obtaining quick bibtex information
June
- June 25, 2010 » Bugs in packages contributed to R
- June 23, 2010 » Valencia 9 invited program
May
- May 27, 2010 » Japan's foot-and-mouth outbreak
- May 7, 2010 » Problem with notation in applied Bayesian work
- May 3, 2010 » Post-doc opportunity
April
- April 20, 2010 » UCSB Statistics ranked 55th
March
- March 25, 2010 » Technical writing
- March 23, 2010 » Priors are model extensions
- March 22, 2010 » Model-Based Forecast Means of Suicides and Homicides
- March 19, 2010 » Modeling Gas Prices in LA
- March 19, 2010 » Lake Temperature forecast
- March 19, 2010 » Daily Exchange Rates Forecast (Using DLM model)
- March 18, 2010 » Intraday stock prices forecast
- March 18, 2010 » Exploring Factors Predicting Academic Achievement in College
- March 18, 2010 » Analysis and forecast of approval rating data
- March 17, 2010 » Forecast of the minimum temperature in Goleta based on a SUTSE model
- March 17, 2010 » California Regular Retail Gasoline Price Forecast
- March 17, 2010 » A Tale of Two States: Birth data for California and Mississippi
- March 15, 2010 » March madness
- March 10, 2010 » R videos
- March 10, 2010 » Postdoc position at UMass-Amherst
- March 10, 2010 » A million, a billion, a trillion - is there a difference?
- March 8, 2010 » Forecast of Plasma Glucose Levels
- March 7, 2010 » Lake temperature forecast
- March 7, 2010 » California Regular Retail Gasoline Price Forecast
- March 7, 2010 » California birth outlook
- March 6, 2010 » Studying Gas Prices in LA
- March 6, 2010 » Intraday stock price forecast
- March 6, 2010 » Forecast of the minimum temperature in Goleta
- March 5, 2010 » Predicting first-year college GPA
- March 5, 2010 » Daily Exchange Rates forecast
- March 5, 2010 » Analysis of approval rating data
- March 4, 2010 » Opening - Assistant Director of LISA, Department of Statistics, Virginia Tech
- March 3, 2010 » Student forecasts
- March 3, 2010 » Beetle population dynamics forecast
February
- February 25, 2010 » Oregon State University is hiring
- February 23, 2010 » MetrumRG is hiring
- February 20, 2010 » UCSB #5 in environmental economics
- February 15, 2010 » Moguls scoring revealed
- February 8, 2010 » Measuring your prior probability accuracy
- February 6, 2010 » Superbowl ad cost
- February 5, 2010 » PhD level Research Biostatistician in RTP, NC, and the DC Metro area
- February 5, 2010 » Google health corps
- February 2, 2010 » Google Mars
January
- January 28, 2010 » Yudof interview in NYTimes
- January 28, 2010 » Objections to Bayesian statistics
- January 27, 2010 » WHO defends H1N1 warning
- January 27, 2010 » Terraforming Mars
- January 26, 2010 » Olbermann apologizes to Stewart
- January 26, 2010 » Mars Spirit rover not moving
- January 25, 2010 » Stewart comments on Olbermann
- January 25, 2010 » Existing home sales decline sharply in December
- January 19, 2010 » Weekly flu update
- January 13, 2010 » UC Living well
- January 12, 2010 » Health care quality versus cost
- January 11, 2010 » Because the grass is always greener
- January 6, 2010 » Windows service pack 3
- January 5, 2010 » Reducing drug resistant staph infections
- January 4, 2010 » Mars Spirit dead?
- January 4, 2010 » Chase auto-pay terms
- January 3, 2010 » Google help forum terms of service
- January 2, 2010 » H1N1 vaccine recall
2009
December
- December 31, 2009 » Weekly flu update
- December 31, 2009 » Password safe agreement
- December 30, 2009 » Gmail terms of service
- December 30, 2009 » E. coli O157:H7 outbreak
- December 29, 2009 » Logitech webcam software license
- December 28, 2009 » HP Image Zone Software
- December 16, 2009 » Vista Service Pack 2
- December 13, 2009 » Garmin terms and conditions
- December 13, 2009 » Garmin software license agreement
- December 13, 2009 » Garmin communicator agreement
- December 9, 2009 » Flu update
- December 7, 2009 » Hit by spammers
- December 1, 2009 » Flu update
November
- November 23, 2009 » Student fee hikes
- November 13, 2009 » 7 Things "Good Parents" Do (That Screw Kids Up for Life)
- November 12, 2009 » Synthetic biology
- November 6, 2009 » Employment recession
- November 6, 2009 » CDC adds daily flu tracking
- November 5, 2009 » National Data Buoy Center
- November 5, 2009 » Multi-level models in Stata, SAS, or R
- November 3, 2009 » October Economic Summary in Graphs
October
- October 30, 2009 » Motorola droid
- October 30, 2009 » H1N1 deaths
- October 29, 2009 » U.S. Homeownership Rate
- October 29, 2009 » Mars missions
- October 29, 2009 » Classy California governor
- October 28, 2009 » Swine flu mortality rates - bubble chart
- October 28, 2009 » Core faculty member of QMSS
- October 27, 2009 » Housing starts
- October 26, 2009 » Bioengineering insights
- October 21, 2009 » Seminar today
- October 16, 2009 » An inconvenient truth graph
- October 15, 2009 » All space missions on one map
- October 14, 2009 » Debt as a percentage of GDP
- October 13, 2009 » Particle MCMC at RSS
- October 13, 2009 » Economists talk climate change at UCSB
- October 13, 2009 » Baltic Dry Index
- October 12, 2009 » Forecasting datasets
- October 8, 2009 » Meandering river video
- October 7, 2009 » Another reason to get an iPhone
- October 5, 2009 » QMSS @ UCSB
- October 5, 2009 » dealing with bibTeX files
- October 2, 2009 » Student blogging
- October 2, 2009 » Kitchen-safe digital recipe book
- October 1, 2009 » Google wave
September
- September 30, 2009 » All models are wrong, but some are useful
- September 28, 2009 » Added a calendar
- September 23, 2009 » A much better template - Heckerped
- September 22, 2009 » Welcome