Long time readers indeed.
That article was from 2009!
-Original Message-
From: R-help On Behalf Of Enrico Schumann
Sent: Sunday, December 15, 2024 5:27 AM
To: Bill Dunlap
Cc: r-help@r-project.org
Subject: Re: [R] [off-topic] crossword
On Fri, 13 Dec 2024, Bill Dunlap writes
are dedicated cruciverbalists need not know anything about the C and R
>> languages or even programming in general. They are supposed to figure out
>> it is an ODE between C and R.
>>
>> -Original Message-
>> From: R-help On Behalf Of Olivier Crouzet
>>
Not to beat a dead horse, but if they wanted an answer of CODES, then why not
use S instead of R in the …
From: Bill Dunlap
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To: avi.e.gr...@gmail.com
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Crossword
ot know anything about the C and R
> languages or even programming in general. They are supposed to figure out
> it is an ODE between C and R.
>
> -Original Message-
> From: R-help On Behalf Of Olivier Crouzet
> Sent: Friday, December 13, 2024 9:51 AM
> To: r-help@r
Of Erin Hodgess
Sent: Friday, December 13, 2024 10:06 AM
To: CALUM POLWART
Cc: r-help@r-project.org
Subject: Re: [R] [off-topic] crossword
RULES means that anyone who uses C or R RULES the Universe. They just do.
Erin Hodgess, PhD
mailto: erinm.hodg...@gmail.com
On Fri, Dec 13, 2024 at 1:02 AM CA
and R languages or
even programming in general. They are supposed to figure out it is an ODE
between C and R.
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Sent: Friday, December 13, 2024 9:51 AM
To: r-help@r-project.org
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Thank you all fo
:
>
>> I do not understand the question and I do not understand the answer.
>> Possibly one confounds the other.
>>
>> -Original Message-----
>> From: R-help On Behalf Of Erin Hodgess
>> Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2024 11:56 AM
>> To: Bill Dunlap
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ng ;-) )
>
> On Fri, 13 Dec 2024, 04:26 Ebert,Timothy Aaron,
> wrote:
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> > I do not understand the question and I do not understand the answer.
> > Possibly one confounds the other.
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> > From: R-help On Behalf Of Erin
&
e other.
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> -Original Message-
> From: R-help On Behalf Of Erin Hodgess
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> Cc: r-help@R-project.org
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> [External Email]
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> RULES!
>
>
> Erin
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Well to complicate things, I don't think RULES is the answer.
This is a cryptic crossword clue. They usually co
stion and I do not understand the answer.
> Possibly one confounds the other.
>
> -Original Message-
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> To: Bill Dunlap
> Cc: r-help@R-project.org
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I do not understand the question and I do not understand the answer. Possibly
one confounds the other.
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To: Bill Dunlap
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RULES!
Erin Hodgess, PhD
mailto: erinm.hodg...@gmail.com
On Thu, Dec 12, 2024 at 9:42 AM Bill Dunlap
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> The New York Times crossword this morning had the clue (51 down, 5 letters)
> "Writes in C or R, say".
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This is off topic and only tangentially related to statistics or R
(through "HARK"ing -- Hypothesizing After Results are Known). But
given the research interests of many on this list, I thought others
would enjoy it. My apologies if I have overstepped (please let me know
if so). Also, PLEASE DON'T
Just to remark that the R community hs been active in developing
software in this area. The CRAN Task View has almost twenty packages
claiming to address the problem under various names.
https://cran.r-project.org/view=MetaAnalysis
Whether the methods work has also been the topic of discussion
Chapter 9 might be of interest:
https://bookdown.org/MathiasHarrer/Doing_Meta_Analysis_in_R/
And specifically, for funnel plots in R:
https://wviechtb.github.io/metafor/reference/funnel.html
Best,
Rob
On 7/25/2024 6:40 AM, Richard O'Keefe wrote:
I know you didn't want to stimulate discussion,
I know you didn't want to stimulate discussion, but the problem is not
confined to publication. "Adverse reaction to medication" monitoring
programs are plagued by a similarly massive under-reporting problem:
adverse reactions are seldom reported unless they are particularly bad
or surprising. (T
Here is one response: https://doi.org/10.1093/jisesa/iew092
Or paraphrased: yes.
Regards,
Tim
-Original Message-
From: R-help On Behalf Of Bert Gunter
Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2024 10:44 AM
To: R-help
Subject: [R] OFF TOPIC: Nature article on File Drawer Problem in Reserach
[External
Bert Gunter
Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2024 10:44 AM
To: R-help
Subject: [R] OFF TOPIC: Nature article on File Drawer Problem in Reserach
Again, this is off topic, not about statistics or R, but I think of
interest to many on this list. The title is:
"So you got a null result. Will anyone pu
Thank you, but I should have said that this post was not meant to
provoke on-list discussion, as it *is* off topic. My Apologies. Please
keep any further discussion private to me only.
-- Bert
On Wed, Jul 24, 2024 at 8:22 AM Ogbos Okike wrote:
>
> Dear Bert,
>
> You have made my day!! Your post
Dear Bert,
You have made my day!! Your post is a great help and very useful in my
field.
The paper is not among the off-the-shelf research output. Some of us, who
get into unenviable conflict and disputation with some reverenced
authorities in our field, understand the weight of the article. I ha
Again, this is off topic, not about statistics or R, but I think of
interest to many on this list. The title is:
"So you got a null result. Will anyone publish it?"
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-02383-9
Best to all,
Bert
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All:
**OFF TOPIC** -- feel free to respond to me personally, but I will not
respond to on-list comments.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03635-w
Many of you will no doubt know of this already. I hope it will be of
interest to all concerned with research replicability, integrity, and
t
** Please Do Not Respond**
This is only FYI for those who care to follow the link below.
Explanation: Many questions that appear on this list are about how to
organize and format data -- unsurprising, as data structures are an
essential component of software and algorithm development in general,
a
Hi Bert,
The article notes that chatGPT often gets the concept wrong, rather
than the facts. I think this can be traced to the one who poses the
question. I have often encountered requests for help that did not ask
for what was really wanted. I was recently asked if I could
graphically concatenate
It does often behave better if you say to it "that doesn't seem to be
working" and perhaps some error message
It is afterall a language tool. Its function is to provide text that seems
real.
If you ask it a science question and ask it to provide references in
Vancouver format, it can format the r
Thanks.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/with-ai-hackers-can-simply-talk-computers-into-misbehaving-ad488686?mod=hp_lead_pos10
Ever heard of AI prompt injection?
*Stephen Dawson, DSL*
/Executive Strategy Consultant/
Business & Technology
+1 (865) 804-3454
http://www.shdawson.com
On 8/13/23 13:49
**OFF TOPIC** but perhaps of interest to some on this list. I apologize in
advance to those who may be offended.
The byline:
"ChatGPT's odds of getting code questions correct are worse than a coin flip
But its suggestions are so annoyingly plausible"
*
he Wolfram Knowledge
base to pass through natural language queries ...
Avi
-Original Message-
From: Hadley Wickham
Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2023 6:10 PM
To: avi.e.gr...@gmail.com
Cc: Jim Lemon ; Ebert,Timothy Aaron ;
R-help
Subject: Re: [R] Off-topic: ChatGPT Code Interpreter
>
> I am not sure what your example means but text to image conversion can be
> done quite easily in many programming environments and does not need an AI
> unless you are using it to hunt for info. I mean you can open up many Paint
> or Photo programs and look at the menus and often one allows you
7;Jim Lemon' ; Ebert,Timothy Aaron
Cc: 'R-help'
Subject: RE: [R] Off-topic: ChatGPT Code Interpreter
[External Email]
Jim,
I am not sure what your example means but text to image conversion can be done
quite easily in many programming environments and does not need an AI unless
kind of info, make this easier. In some ways, an
AI can do much of the searching for you but with results that may be
surprising.
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From: R-help On Behalf Of Jim Lemon
Sent: Monday, July 17, 2023 7:24 PM
To: Ebert,Timothy Aaron
Cc: R-help
Subject: Re: [R] Off-topic
lt-in functionality. So why would you want an AI to write
assembly code or do it in a language like C but rather pick a language well
suited for whatever task.
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From: R-help On Behalf Of Spencer Graves
Sent: Monday, July 17, 2023 3:13 PM
To: Bert Gunter ; R-help
Subject: Re: [R
The near year as Metropolis, 1927.
On Tue, Jul 18, 2023, 1:27 AM Rui Barradas wrote:
> Às 00:23 de 18/07/2023, Jim Lemon escreveu:
> > I haven't really focused on the statistical capabilities of AI, that
> > marriage of massive memory and associative learning. I am impressed by
> > its ability
Às 00:23 de 18/07/2023, Jim Lemon escreveu:
I haven't really focused on the statistical capabilities of AI, that
marriage of massive memory and associative learning. I am impressed by
its ability to perform text-to-image conversion, something I have
recently needed. My artistic ability is that of
I haven't really focused on the statistical capabilities of AI, that
marriage of massive memory and associative learning. I am impressed by
its ability to perform text-to-image conversion, something I have
recently needed. My artistic ability is that of the average three year
old, yet I can employ
methods to best
address the research goals.
Tim
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Sent: Monday, July 17, 2023 2:46 PM
To: R-help
Subject: [R] Off-topic: ChatGPT Code Interpreter
[External Email]
This is an **off-topic** post about the subject line, that I thought might
I don't know about ChatGPT, but Daniel Kahneman won the 2002 Nobel
Memorial Prize in Economics,[1] even though he's not an economist, for
his leadership in creating a new subfield in the intersection of human
psychology and economics now called "behavioral economics".[2] Then in
2009 Kahnema
This is an **off-topic** post about the subject line, that I thought
might be of interest to the R Community. I hope this does not offend
anyone.
The widely known ChatGPT software now offers what is called a "Code
Interpreter," that, among other things, purports to do "data
analysis." (Search fo
.
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From: Marc Schwartz via R-help
To: Eric Berger
Cc: r-help@r-project.org
Sent: Thu, Jan 13, 2022 3:08 pm
Subject: Re: [R] (Off-Topic) Time for a companion mailing list for R packages?
Eric,
With respect to your second point, as one of the moderators for the
R-Devel list
Hi,
I wasn't going to contribute to this, but I've got a couple of minutes
and the morning caffeine has hit me.
My 5 Point Plan for taking life as it comes:
1) I don't like to help people, I'd rather trick them into doing it themselves.
2) I'm lazy and intolerant. If somebody wants me to do their w
Eric,
With respect to your second point, as one of the moderators for the
R-Devel list, where the same considerations apply to all "official" R
lists like R-Help here, the issue of plain text content restrictions is
multi-factorial, partly with security considerations in mind, but has
histori
ginal Message-
From: Kevin Thorpe
To: Jeff Newmiller
Cc: Avi Gross ; R Help Mailing List
Sent: Thu, Jan 13, 2022 7:44 am
Subject: Re: [R] (Off-Topic) Time for a companion mailing list for R packages?
This is an interesting issue and something I have been thinking about raising
with my f
Calandra
From: R-help on behalf of Duncan Murdoch
Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2022 2:25 PM
To: Kevin Thorpe; Jeff Newmiller
Cc: R Help Mailing List
Subject: Re: [R] (Off-Topic) Time for a companion mailing list for R packages?
Currently help for contributed
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Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2022 2:25 PM
To: Kevin Thorpe; Jeff Newmiller
Cc: R Help Mailing List
Subject: Re: [R] (Off-Topic) Time for a companion mailing list for R packages?
Currently help for contributed packages is availa
lf of Duncan Murdoch
Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2022 2:25 PM
To: Kevin Thorpe; Jeff Newmiller
Cc: R Help Mailing List
Subject: Re: [R] (Off-Topic) Time for a companion mailing list for R packages?
Currently help for contributed packages is available on StackOverflow,
package-specific web sit
Great discussion thread.
The problem is not a mailing list. The problem is the inability to
segment questions. Segment, by keyword or sub-directory (loose word) or
any other compartmentalization.
QUESTION
What other technology options are available here beyond a mailing list?
*Stephen Dawso
umbers increasing?
Cheers
Petr
> -Original Message-
> From: R-help On Behalf Of Kevin Thorpe
> Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2022 1:45 PM
> To: Jeff Newmiller
> Cc: R Help Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [R] (Off-Topic) Time for a companion mailing list for R packages?
>
Currently help for contributed packages is available on StackOverflow,
package-specific web sites and Github.
I rarely read package-specific (e.g. RStudio) web pages, and have only
posted questions there a few times, with generally unsatisfactory results.
Most package developers (including ti
This is an interesting issue and something I have been thinking about raising
with my fellow volunteer moderators.
I honestly don’t know what the best solution is. Personally, I would loathe
having to check multiple web-forums/mailing lists to find an answer. New users
often do not appreciate t
Further to yesterday's posts:
I think the "n" value would be the maximum possible number of jumps,
not the number of students.
In theory, the minimum possible number is zero, so the distributions
are more binomial-like than they look.
Also, there was a mistake in my comments.
The jump is from non-
Sorry.
I just realized, after posting, that the "n" value in the dispersion
calculation isn't correct.
I'll have to revisit the simulation, tomorrow.
On Sat, Mar 27, 2021 at 9:11 PM Abby Spurdle wrote:
>
> Hi Rolf,
>
> Let's say we have a course called Corgiology 101, with a single moderated
> e
Hi Rolf,
Let's say we have a course called Corgiology 101, with a single moderated exam.
And let's say the moderators transform initial exam scores, such that
there are fixed percentages of pass rates and A grades.
Rather than count the number of passes, we can count the number of "jumps".
That i
On 25/03/2021 10:25 p.m., Rolf Turner wrote:
On Fri, 26 Mar 2021 13:41:00 +1300
Abby Spurdle wrote:
I haven't checked this, but I guess that the number of students that
*pass* a particular exam/subject, per semester would be like that.
e.g.
Let's say you have a course in maximum likelihood,
On Fri, 26 Mar 2021 13:41:00 +1300
Abby Spurdle wrote:
> I haven't checked this, but I guess that the number of students that
> *pass* a particular exam/subject, per semester would be like that.
>
> e.g.
> Let's say you have a course in maximum likelihood, that's taught once
> per year to 3rd
I haven't checked this, but I guess that the number of students that
*pass* a particular exam/subject, per semester would be like that.
e.g.
Let's say you have a course in maximum likelihood, that's taught once
per year to 3rd year students, and a few postgrads.
You could count the number of passe
On Wed, 24 Mar 2021 18:45:01 -0700
wrote:
> "X = {X_1, X_2, ..., X_N} where each X_i
> is an integer between 0 and n (n known a priori)"
>
> That is a multinomial, not a binomial distribution. A binomial
> distribution can have only two values, success or failure.
>
> What have I misunderstoo
I would like a real-life example of a data set which one might think to
model by a binomial distribution, but which is substantially
underdispersed. I.e. a sample X = {X_1, X_2, ..., X_N} where each X_i
is an integer between 0 and n (n known a priori) such that var(X) <<
mean(X)*(1 - mean(X)/n).
> On May 11, 2017, at 9:33 AM, g.maub...@gmx.de wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> this post is somewhat off-topic cause it deals with a meta issue related to
> project organisation instead of real R code.
>
> I have updated my blog concerning a possible directory and file structure for
> marketing resea
Hi All,
this post is somewhat off-topic cause it deals with a meta issue related to
project organisation instead of real R code.
I have updated my blog concerning a possible directory and file structure for
marketing research projects and data mining projects alike:
https://github.com/gmaubach
On Fri, Sep 2, 2016 at 9:10 AM, John Kane wrote:
> Over the last few years I came to the conclusion that using a spreadsheet
> for anything more complicated than my shopping list was madness.
> I am now reconsidering my position on shopping lists.
>
I got a real laugh out of that one! When use
and this is a great addition.
John Kane
Kingston ON Canada
> -Original Message-
> From: bgunter.4...@gmail.com
> Sent: Thu, 1 Sep 2016 08:09:46 -0700
> To: r-help@r-project.org
> Subject: [R] Off topic, but hopefully not totally irrelevant: on MS Excel
> and
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/sifter/one-five-genetics-papers-contains-errors-thanks-microsoft-excel
Cheers,
Bert
Bert Gunter
"The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along
and sticking things into it."
-- Opus (aka Berkeley Breathed in his "Bloom County" comic strip )
Hi All,
today I would like to announce a now R blog. I contains a few entries
about the findings during my course of studies and my daily work:
https://github.com/gmaubach/R-Know-How/wiki/R-Blog
I hope you'll find my hints usefull.
In addition you could have a look at a small R collection of f
Hi there,
It's a off-topic post. It seems that the R home page changed a lot.
There are no plot at the right frame. Why are they removed? Will it or
an alternative be back in future?
Another question is about the ``What's New?'' page. The latest
announcement is not archived in that page. In
Perhaps it is bad form to respond to my own post but all the responses have
been useful and I did not want to play favorites
I am coming back to Linux after several MacBook years. Unfortunately the
Linux for Laptops page is not as well updated as it once was. On the other
hand, pre-installed Li
Another +1 here for the ThinkPad series... they seem to run Linux
distros about as well as most, and are pretty robustly built. I picked
up a Lenovo ThinkPad T530 last fall with Windows 7 Pro on it, and have
it currently set up to dual-boot into openSUSE 12.3. Ubuntu 13.04
probably ran the sm
I have a gatway running scientific linux 6.4. It runs R quite well. I had
an old mac power pc running a special flavor of debian that ran R well
relative to the hardware constraints.
FWIW, get all intel hardware; Then the rest is up to you. Good Luck!
Stephen
On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 4:40 PM,
Hi,
I have no real input here from personal experience, but the author of
the coderspiel blog has these two "recent" posts about his experience
with Ubuntu on (what seem to be) two very nice machines:
The latest is a Vaio Pro of some sort. Ubuntu is a bit difficult to
install, but doable:
http:/
I think that Hasan Diwan's assertion is a bit of an
over-simplification. I have a Toshiba Satellite
L850 that has no problems of any sort running R. However it *does* have
problems with WiFi.
The WiFi drivers for my laptop won't work under (any?) Linux system.
Apparently (I don't completel
Any laptop that performs well with Linux will perform acceptably with R and
vice versa. -- H
On 11 August 2013 11:03, Mitchell Maltenfort wrote:
> Can anyone recommend a laptop that performs well running R under Linux?
> Thanks.
>
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> From: gunter.ber...@gene.com
> Sent: Fri, 4 May 2012 09:49:15 -0700
> To: r-help@r-project.org
> Subject: [R] Off-Topic: Crime Statistics Don't Pay
>
> WARNING: COMPLETELY OFF TOPIC -- Nothing to do with R.
>
> I thought readers of this list might enjoy the fo
e-
> From: gunter.ber...@gene.com
> Sent: Fri, 4 May 2012 09:49:15 -0700
> To: r-help@r-project.org
> Subject: [R] Off-Topic: Crime Statistics Don't Pay
>
> WARNING: COMPLETELY OFF TOPIC -- Nothing to do with R.
>
> I thought readers of this list might enjoy the fo
WARNING: COMPLETELY OFF TOPIC -- Nothing to do with R.
I thought readers of this list might enjoy the following. The link to
the full article is at the bottom. I hope this is not "too"
inappropriate.
---
Overconfidence in crime statistics doesn’t pay. In a new study, a team
of criminologists
Below.
-- Bert
On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 1:47 PM, Danielle Duncan wrote:
> Thanks for the response, I should have clarified that the NOEL is the
> smallest dose above which there is a statistically significant effect.
>
This is not a scientifically meaningful nor defensible definition as
it is stoch
Folks:
Graphics afficianados might enjoy this link (although "conditional
probability" is also mentioned!):
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/signal/republican-nomination-extends-march-candidates-face-weakening-odds-152347629.html
Pay attention to the graph. Never thought I'd see the phrase "lowess
tr
>
> > On the original question though, why isn't there something "off the
> shelf"
> > that will do what I want? Surely, a "boxplot" using mean, SD, max and
> min
> > would be a common enough need to justify it?
> >
>
> Gabor Grothendieck replied:
> tarr is not a list or a data frame. Use.data.
> -Original Message-
> > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces@r-
> > project.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Robinson
> > Sent: Monday, June 13, 2011 7:03 PM
> > To: R-Help Discussion
> > Subject: [R] Off-topic: (Simple?) Random Sampling when n is a random
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 11:02:52AM +1000, Andrew Robinson wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm involved in a discussion with a colleague. He suggested a sample
> design for a finite-sized process that (to all intents and purposes)
> involves tossing a coin and examining the unit if the coin shows
> Head
Snow Ph.D.
Statistical Data Center
Intermountain Healthcare
greg.s...@imail.org
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> -Original Message-
> From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces@r-
> project.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Robinson
> Sent: Monday, June 13, 2011 7:03 PM
> To: R-He
Hi everyone,
I'm involved in a discussion with a colleague. He suggested a sample
design for a finite-sized process that (to all intents and purposes)
involves tossing a coin and examining the unit if the coin shows
Heads.
I should emphasize that we're both approaching the problem from a
design-
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These days i'm working on fitting an extended Cox model with
time-dependent covariables and possibly time-varying effects. My
data are in counting process format as described in Therneau&Grambsh's
`Modeling Survival Data', page 68. I'm trying to follow Harrell's
`Regression Modeling
On 3/26/10, Bert Gunter wrote:
> represented) is important for numerical calculations, what is the smallest
> number that anyone has actually seen describing physical phenomena in
> science?
>
There was a recent article in The Economist ("The force is weak with
this one", Apr 22nd 2010, [1]) th
There is a story (apocryphal?) about Fred Hoyle, many years ago,
having come to the close of a public lecture about his work in
Cosmology (I seem to recall that it was to the British Astronomical
Association, a society of amateur astronomers, and therefore
knowledgeable). He was taking questions.
I spoke with a theoretical physicist and he said he encountered 10^-120.
Has something to do with attempts to describe/explain the universe...
Dimitri
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 2:33 PM, Steve Lianoglou
wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 1:11 PM, Barry Rowlingson
> wrote:
>> On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 4
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 1:11 PM, Barry Rowlingson
wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 4:31 PM, Bert Gunter wrote:
>> *** COMPLETELY OFF TOPIC ***
>>
>> Although machine precision (smallest numerical values that can be exactly
>> represented) is important for numerical calculations, what is the small
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 4:31 PM, Bert Gunter wrote:
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> Although machine precision (smallest numerical values that can be exactly
> represented) is important for numerical calculations, what is the smallest
> number that anyone has actually seen describing physical p
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Although machine precision (smallest numerical values that can be exactly
represented) is important for numerical calculations, what is the smallest
number that anyone has actually seen describing physical phenomena in
science? I've seen values of ca. 1e-20 or so rout
Ask directly to Jose-Claudio Faria (jcfa...@users.sourceforge.net). He
is the author and maintainer of Tinn-R.
Best,
Philippe Grosjean
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This is not directly related with R however I would like to ask for a
solution for my TINN-R editor because, I feel that lot many people perhaps
use it as a reliable R editor and secondly I could not find any other forum
only deals with TINN over net to discuss with.
For quite sometime I have bee
This is not an R related posting but I thought it would be interesting
for readers of this list. Apologies for any cross-posting
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Dear Colleagues,
apologies for this off-topic posting.
A Ph.D. student here at U of Melb. is trying to find a dataset to use
to demonstrate a technique that he is developing. He needs a binary
response and ideally a categorical predictor, although the latter can
of course be induced from a conti
Dear list,
Sorry for the off-topic post. I've recently built a website using R
and Rapache to process survey and reaction time data. I'm using
ggplot2 to generate graphical reports for participants, and thought
some of you might be interested in taking a look. I'd appreciate any
feedback on the gra
I re-read the posting guide every night before going to bed.
The usefulness of this list stems partly from it being a broad church with
lots of experts. And my concern wasn't with the "off-topic" label so much as
with the slightly inspecific title (although I should have made this clear -
mea cul
On Jun 19, 2009, at 6:36 AM, Paul Artes wrote:
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You should consider re-posting your most
interesting question with a less apologetic title - perhaps you will
get a
larger range of replies.
You might consider (re-?) reading the Posting Guide. The OP was
correct in thinking this is of
Publication of "Exploratory Data Analysis" by John Tukey. Strange Tukey's
name has not been mentioned so far. You should consider re-posting your most
interesting question with a less apologetic title - perhaps you will get a
larger range of replies.
Best wishes
Paul
losemind wrote:
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