University of Minnesota, Twin Cities School of Statistics (Local) Rweb
Official disclaimer required by the University WWW policy.
Woof! I just found out I also need a privacy statement
and a link to the
official university policy on that (even though nothing linked here
is relevant to that stuff).
Also I must abide by the University Accessibility of Information Technology Policy, which I try to do, as well as I can. I'm all for accessibility. It's just that there aren't any great tools, and bobby which is good, complains about a lot of irrelevant stuff.
My worst accessibility offense is using plots in statistics (including over the web via Rweb). I don't know how to make them accessible. There's a good research area for anyone interested in statistical graphics. Apparently, this is already an area of some research interest, but we are a long way from an R device driver that outputs accessible statistical graphics (AFAIK).
MCMC: Does it work? How can we tell?. It was in an invited session organized by Peter Hoff in which speakers were supposed to be critical as opposed to claiming some idea of theirs was the greatest thing since sliced bread like every other speaker does. I tried.
parallel temperingin the MCMC community.
trust to do
trust region optimization. This is a general unconstrained optimization
routine that competes with the R functions nlm
and optim that come with the base distribution.
aster to do life
history analysis for data on biological organisms. Aster models are
in some respects either specializations or generalizations (both in different
respects) of survival analysis, generalized linear models, and graphical models.
rcdd to do computational
geometry, a (partial) interface to the functionality of the
cddlib
library written by Komei Fukuda.
bernor to do
logit-normal GLMM.
mcmc to do Markov chain
Monte Carlo.
Sweave.
tree diagramcalculation for playoff series.
Some fooling around with Java applets.