Shravan Vasishth's Slog (Statistics blog)

I foolishly tried to convert a matrix M to a vector using vector: vector(M) But this is done column wise, so that adjacent row items end...

Our book is finally coming out: You can buy it on Amazon.com , Amazon.de , or Springer.com .

Obscure LaTeX command: \textasciitilde{} % for tilde's in URLs as text. I'd been using $\sim$.

Not directly related to statistics but: Often one wants to have a public cv that one can put on the web, and a more restricted one that has ...

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Journals dealing in psycholinguistic research do not publish null results generally, because they are "inconclusive".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/...