International Prize in Statistics to Sir David Cox

Prominent British statistician Sir David Cox has been named the inaugural recipient of the International Prize in Statistics. Like the acclaimed Fields Medal, Abel Prize, Turing Award and Nobel Prize, the International Prize in Statistics is considered the highest honor in its field. It will be bestowed every other year to an individual or team for major achievements using statistics to advance science, technology and human welfare. 

This inaugural prize recognises Sir David’s seminal 1972 paper in which he developed the proportional hazards model that today bears his name. The Cox Model has been applied in many fields of science and engineering, from disease risk assessment and treatment evaluation to product liability, school dropout, re-incarceration and AIDS surveillance systems.

His mark on research is so great that his 1972 paper is one of the three most-cited papers in statistics and ranked 16th in Nature’s list of the top 100 most-cited papers of all time for all fields.

Read further details at:

http://www.statprize.org/pdfs/Press-Release-International-Prize-Winner.pdf

https://www.statslife.org.uk/news/3052-sir-david-cox-honoured-with-first-international-prize-in-statistics

Eureka with a Probabilist and a Statistician

Good at Math? Now you are no more a nerd, you are actually cool!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfjY9C6UpiA

Reasons to Teach Elementary Statistics with R

Reason #1: http://www.r-bloggers.com/five-reasons-to-teach-elementary-statistics-with-r-1/

Reason #2: http://www.r-bloggers.com/five-reasons-to-teach-elementary-statistics-with-r-2/

Reason #3: http://www.r-bloggers.com/five-reasons-to-teach-elementary-statistics-with-r-3/

How Fast the Fastest Human Would Run 100m?

People have used extreme value theory to predict the records in various sports. Here is an articles which provides codes to visualize the same. One can update the dataset to take into account latest records. It's interesting to see how this updation affects the estimates:

http://www.r-bloggers.com/how-fast-the-fastest-human-would-run-100m/

Where nobody lives

Despite having a population of more than 310 million people, 47 percent of the USA remains unoccupied. Here is a map showing places where nobody lives:

http://flowingdata.com/2014/04/18/where-nobody-lives/

Vectorization in R: Why?

Beginning R users are often told to “vectorize” their code. Here, is an attempt to explain why vectorization can be advantageous in R by showing how R works under the hood:

http://www.r-bloggers.com/vectorization-in-r-why/

Checking (G)LM assumptions in R

(Generalized) Linear models make some strong assumptions concerning the data structure. Here is how to verify those assumptions in R:

http://www.r-bloggers.com/checking-glm-model-assumptions-in-r/

Mapping a century of earthquakes

Did you know that United States Geological Survey maintains an ever growing archive of earthquakes detected around the world, and they make it easy to query and download?

Here is how you can map that data using R:

http://flowingdata.com/2014/04/15/mapping-a-century-of-earthquakes/

Benefits of using Open Source Software

Why public universities should use open source software? Read the reasons at:

http://www.r-bloggers.com/public-universities-should-use-open-source-software/

The Median Isn't the Message

The Median Isn't the Message is the wisest, most humane thing ever written about cancer and statistics. It is the antidote both to those who say that, "the statistics don't matter," and to those who have the unfortunate habit of pronouncing death sentences on patients who face a difficult prognosis. Anyone who researches the medical literature will confront the statistics for their disease. Anyone who reads this will be armed with reason and with hope:

http://www.cancerguide.org/median_not_msg.html

Beeps and progress alerts to your phone

Would you like your R program to alert you with a beep or ping, as soon as the execution is over? then here is the way out:

http://www.r-bloggers.com/beeps-and-progress-alerts-to-your-phone/

R Help about Symbols

How to open R help about a symbol or punctuation mark like ( parenthesis or [ bracket:

http://www.r-bloggers.com/how-do-i-open-r-help-about-a-symbol-or-punctuation-mark-like-parenthesis-or-bracket/

God is a Gambler

"All the evidence shows that God was actually quite a gambler, and the universe is a great casino, where dice are thrown, and roulette wheels spin on every occasion."

- Stephen Hawking

Some R Resources for GLMs

It is relatively easy to figure how to code a GLM in R. Even a total newcomer to R is likely to figure out that the glm() function is part of the core R language within a minute or so of searching. Thereafter though, it gets more difficult to find other GLM related stuff that R has to offer. Here is a far from complete, but hopefully helpful, list of resources.

http://www.r-bloggers.com/some-r-resources-for-glms/

Does R have too many packages?

Most of us agree with the fact that availability of thousands of packages on CRAN is often life saving. But, there are few, who feel that there are rather too many packages on R. Read this post to know what makes them think the other way?

http://www.r-bloggers.com/does-r-have-too-many-packages/

Seven quick facts about R

Here are some key facts about growth of R:

http://www.r-bloggers.com/seven-quick-facts-about-r/

Probability of Extreme Events like 9/11

An interesting article on estimating probability of large terrorist events like 9/11

http://sourish-das.blogspot.in/2013/11/probability-of-extreme-events-like-911.html

Global Flow of People

A very cool representation of global migration flows between all countries using R:

http://www.r-bloggers.com/circular-migration-flow-plots-in-r/

Don't miss this link and check out the migration pattern of your country:
http://www.global-migration.info/

Why use R?

Why should R be preferred over other statistical software? Read in the words of an extensive user of both a proprietary statistical programming language as well as the open source alternative.

http://www.r-bloggers.com/why-use-r-five-reasons/

Add new colors to your R-charts

If you are a big fan of Wes Anderson's movies and if you love the quirky characters and stories, the distinctive cinematography, and the unique visual style, then you can bring some of that style to your own R charts, by making use of these Wes Anderson inspired palettes.

http://www.r-bloggers.com/give-your-r-charts-that-wes-anderson-style/