Tag Archives: statistics

Resilience Science in 2010: looking back

How was 2010 for this blog? Google Analytics can be used to find out what happens on a website, and according to Google Analytics, in 2010 Resilience Science had about 240,000 page views, 190,000 unique visitors, and over 500 feed … Continue reading

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Hans Rosling animates 200 years of human development

Hans Rosling shows how visualizing public health statistics can communicate development and inequality on the BBC show the Joy of stats.  The BBC writes: Despite its light and witty touch, the film nonetheless has a serious message – without statistics … Continue reading

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Andrew Gelman’s statistical lexicon

On his group’s weblog, influential Bayesian statistican Andrew Gelman proposes a statistical lexicon to make important methods and concepts related to statistics better know: The Secret Weapon: Fitting a statistical model repeatedly on several different datasets and then displaying all … Continue reading

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Video Tutorial on Social Network Analysis Using R

From the Complexity and Social Networks Blog links to video of Steve Goodreau and David Hunter running a tutorial on Social Network Analysis Using R.  They recommend some prior knowledge of R and standard network analytic methods as the tutorial … Continue reading

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