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This tweet sparked a host of comments about the need for R prep courses, as well as some great gifs! This is my R prep course, with a …
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A good friend posted this link to FB. I read the post, did some background reading, and debated whether to write this post or not. …
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I’ve heard a number of calls for faculty to slow down, think, and write. This is the latest, by Allison Adams from Emory …
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Yesterday a colleague posted a link to an article in The Federalist calling out liberals for not listening. I think the author has a …
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At a reader’s request I’m attempting to add disqus comments to my blog posts. Ignore this post!
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This article made the rounds of twitter recently. I agree. There is a mismatch between statistical practice and training. Almost the …
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Should ecologists use sum-to-zero contrasts?
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TL;DR No.
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A student asked: I never use ArcGIS before. What’s the limitation of R which ArcGis can do but R can’t? And what else R can …
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So a couple weeks ago I had a stab at putting a list of fitted models into a data.frame. I didn’t succeed. So, here’s …
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