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Comment on On The Dilution Effect by Katherine

Katherine — Sun, 14 Apr 2013 06:22:19 +0000

Thanks for the informative post! I\'m a college senior pursuing a bachelor\'s degree in biology, and I\'m working on a term paper on the dilution effect for my ecology class. Superficially, the dilution effect seems like a fairly straight-forward concept, but when you really start to think about it you realize that such an over-simplified and generalized explanation of disease transmission rates, no matter how politically or economically appealing, is dangerous and its perpetuation as an all-encompassing rule represents non-progressive science.

Comment on Plotting Error Bars in R by jhj1

jhj1 — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 21:17:58 +0000

You need to do the barplot first. error.bar.R adds the error bars to an existing bar plot.

Comment on Plotting Error Bars in R by JCobb

JCobb — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 21:08:23 +0000

So when I call the error.bar function (on my own data or on the simulated data provided I get a \"plot.new has not been called yet\" error message. Any thoughts?

Comment on Plotting Error Bars in R by clear

clear — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 15:13:34 +0000

Awesome post.

Comment on Why Use R? by Exporting nice plots in R » G-Forge

Exporting nice plots in R » G-Forge — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 21:19:19 +0000

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Comment on Plotting Error Bars in R by mwj

mwj — Sun, 03 Feb 2013 16:13:01 +0000

Hi, great post, thanks heaps! I\'m wondering how I need to adapt the code to help me calculate the appropriate confidence intervals when I have a poisson response variable and factor predictor variable...If you have some quick hints, they are greatly appreciated!

Comment on Thoughts on Black Swans and Antifragility by Anthropology Beyond Capitalism | Anthropology Report

Anthropology Beyond Capitalism | Anthropology Report — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 01:08:50 +0000

[...] Thoughts on Black Swans and Antifragility, James Holland Jones My reading of Taleb’s critiques of prediction and risk management is that the primary problem is hubris. Is there anything fundamentally wrong with risk assessment? I am not convinced there is, and there are quite likely substantial benefits to systematic inquiry. The problem is that the risk assessment models become reified into a kind of reality. I warn students – and try to regularly remind myself – never to fall in love with one’s own model. Something that many economists and risk modelers do is start to believe that their models are something more real than heuristic. monkey’s uncle, 26 December 2012 [...]

Comment on The Least Stressful Profession of Them All? by jhj1

jhj1 — Sun, 06 Jan 2013 17:08:33 +0000

Happy to see a post on Gawker.com this morning on this topic (http://gawker.com/5973391/the-forbes+college-professor-war-is-so-on). One great thing about it is that it contains a number of pretty hilarious tweets by professors using the hashtag #RealForbesProfessors. Sweet.

Comment on The Least Stressful Profession of Them All? by Audra

Audra — Sun, 06 Jan 2013 11:00:18 +0000

That\'s a really nice response highlighting both the challenges of the ways they applied the measures they used as well as other aspects of being a faculty member. It\'s nice to dispel the myths for those who believe that getting a job at a university like Stanford is just like getting a job at some small cute college in BFE Arkansas.

Comment on Thoughts on Black Swans and Antifragility by The Least Stressful Profession of Them All?

The Least Stressful Profession of Them All? — Sun, 06 Jan 2013 06:40:46 +0000

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