Shravan Vasishth's Slog (Statistics blog)

People in linguistics tend to treat statistical theory as something that can be outsourced--we don't really need to know anything about ...

This should be standard in Textmate, I don't know why one has to go through so many steps to get it working: http://gragusa.wordpress.co...

Got this from the web somewhere: Just create a script with the following content: #!/bin/sh LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 SVN=`which svn` echo Changi...

Journals dealing in psycholinguistic research do not publish null results generally, because they are "inconclusive". So it's ...

Roger Levy has created a possibly useful wiki for exchanging questions about the use of R for language research: https://ling.ucsd.edu/mailm...

It's websites like this that give model selection such a bad reputation in science: http://www.modelselection.org/

http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/~matloff/r.html

I just found a most astounding blog via Gelman's blog: http://emotion.inrialpes.fr/~dangauthier/blog/

Extracting fixed effects coefficients from lmer is easy: fixef(lmer.fit) But extracting SEs of those coefficients is, well, trivial, but you...

One non-obvious thing (at least to me) about Hmisc's xYplot function is that to increase magnification or other parameters of a graph co...

I finally installed Windows on my Mac (a traumatic experience) and finally got the code working. However, the startup instructions on the we...

1. If you are going to generate lots of latex tables automatically from an Rnw file, LABEL THEM. 2. weaver does not work with xYplot. If you...

I'm writing this somewhat cranky review as I read the book. Compared to the Pinheiro and Bates book, the examples in this book are initi...

1. http://www.unc.edu/courses/2006spring/ecol/145/001/docs/lectures.htm 2. http://www.stat.washington.edu/vanduijn/560/ Statistical learning...

Some amazing articles I've recently read in my ample spare time: 1. The Insignificance of Null Hypothesis Significance Testing Jeff...

There's an interesting paper I just read that comes with Sweave/R code that the article uses: http://www-personal.umich.edu/ ~jwbowers/...

It is not immediately obvious how one can install weaver (thanks to balajis for telling me about it--see his comment to the Sweave speed iss...

As soon as you have a lot of experiments floating around, you tend to get a proliferation of code and data files. Usually, chaos ensues. If ...

The Introduction to R and other documentation CRAN tells you how to build a library. But it is remarkably hard to find a step-by-step how-to...

One problem my colleagues and I face is that our statistical analysis projects quickly become very complex, and recompiling Sweave becomes a...