All Blog Posts Tagged 'SPSS' (6)

This blog was published recently showing that the use of R continues to grow in academia. One of the graphs (Figure 1) showed citations (using google scholar) of different statistical packages in academic papers (to which I have added annotations).…

Readers  may be interested in a new  page on my website dedicated to the late…

My friend Jeremy Miles sent me this article by Basto and Periera (2012) this morning with the subject line ‘this is kind of cool’. Last time I saw Jeremy, my wife and I gatecrashed his house in LA for 10 days to discuss writing the R book that’s about to come out. During that stay we talked about lots of things, none of which had anything to do with statistics, or R for that matter. It’s strange then…

This will be brief because, you know, it's nearly Christmas and for those of us that use this as an excuse to eat too many sweets and drink too much beer and wine, it's not a time for statistics. However, after Christmas will very much be a time for statistics in the Field household (my wife can't wait ....) because the other day I opened the bar of chocolate with the golden ticket to statistics hell and back contained within. Yes, that's right, it's time to write the fourth edition of the…